Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.
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Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
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My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.
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Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.
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All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
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In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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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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On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.
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My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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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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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've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
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Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.
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Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
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The night is black, as black as night.
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What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.
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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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This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.
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I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
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I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.
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I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.