Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
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All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
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People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.
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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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Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
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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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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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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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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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My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.
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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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Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.
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I stand before you a totally healthy person.
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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 tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.
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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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The night is black, as black as night.
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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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This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
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What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.
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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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Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.