Quotes By Melissa Etheridge

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

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.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

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.

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

Love is never wrong.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.