Top 40 Melissa Etheridge Quotes

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

Weight isn’t a factor in nutritional health.

I have always loved Broadway.

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.

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.

I’m exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, ‘Oh, I’m never really going to get it right. I’m never going to get it done. But that’s not the point here.’ The point is the journey.

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

Video is a funny thing. It’s one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people’s minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.

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

I have days when I say, ‘I’m going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.’ I’ll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

I always tell people I’m grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, ‘Wow.’ And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.

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.

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.’

I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.

I’m not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

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.

I’ve worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like ‘Ooooohh.’ It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.

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.

My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.

There’s a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there’s this stillness of your own – I got to know myself.

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control – levels of energy that perhaps we don’t see.

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.’

I’m one of those people that will say, ‘My cancer was a gift.’

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you’re as good as your going to get. And that’s not true.

I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King’s dream came true when he was elected. That’s huge.

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.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.