Melissa Etheridge Quotes

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

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

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

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.

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

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 people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

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.

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier.

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

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

I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.

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.

No one to hear, you might as well scream.

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

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

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

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.

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.

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

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.

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.

When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

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

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!

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.

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

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

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!'

I can feel the thunder underneath my feet

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

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

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

My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.

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.