Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
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There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
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I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and .. so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110% supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of? I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.
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To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
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I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.
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I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
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Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
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There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
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I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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The night is black, as black as night.
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Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.
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To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.
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Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.
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This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.
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I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally.
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I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
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Somebody bring me some water can’t you see I’m burning alive.
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I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.
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Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.