Best 95 quotes of Melissa Etheridge on MyQuotes

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

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

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

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.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

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

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

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

Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.

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

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

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.

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.

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

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.

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.'

I can feel the thunder underneath my feet

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 could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

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 do believe in true bisexuality. We all have the capacity. [My partner] Julie is much more bisexual than I am. The more the world understands their bisexuality the better we'll be. I'm attracted to souls. I can be attracted to both.

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 don't think anyone masters parenthood.

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

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.

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

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

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.

I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. 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 hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live.

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.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

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

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

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

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.

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

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.

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

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 stand before you a totally healthy person.

I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!

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.

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

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

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 think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.

It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye.

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.