Melissa Etheridge Quotes (25 Quotes)

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.

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.

At the end of the whole thing when it was over, I came home to a bouquet that said 'in sickness and in health,' and she means it, ... And the love and support of someone like that is worth all the money in the world.

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.

The experience with my children brings me back to earth. I mean, I go out there and I'm looking at (bugs), you know, and I'm looking at snails. And there's the grass, and I'm getting down in it.

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

Melissa Etheridge says she smoked medicinal marijuana to help with the side effects of chemotherapy during her treatment for breast cancer. The 44-year-old singer, who was diagnosed over a year ago, is now cancer-free. Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana, ... Dateline NBC.

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

It does to me but I don't know if it will happen with that organization. But that's the future.

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.

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

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.

Love is never wrong.

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

In the morning of the night When I woke to find you gone I knew your distant devil Must be draggin' you along

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

No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

What's happening right now, this month, I check in and go, 'Hey. You are at the top of a wave right now. Look around and enjoy it because it's not going to stay,' ... The wave goes away. It does not dictate how good I am or my worth. It's just the way it happens.

We were just talking about how hard it is to come here and get all dressed up and know that there is someone sitting in their attic hoping they are not going to die. I called my manager today and I said what can I do. I hate this feeling of wanting to do something.

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

Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down The legacy stops here.

I wasn't able to watch television because it hurt. Music, sound hurt. You can smell everything, so anything anyone's eating makes you completely sick,

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 stand before you a totally healthy person.