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

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.
Melissa Etheridge

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

I stand before you a totally healthy person.
Melissa Etheridge

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

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

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

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

Love is never wrong.
Melissa Etheridge

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.
Melissa Etheridge


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.
Melissa Etheridge

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.
Melissa Etheridge