Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
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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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This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.
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I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!
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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 think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
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Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.
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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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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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Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.
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I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!
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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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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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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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Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
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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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Somebody bring me some water can’t you see I’m burning alive.
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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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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The only thing that stays the same is change.
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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 write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
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My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
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I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'