Melissa Etheridge famous quotes

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

#Being Strong #Believe #Feels

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

#Marijuana #Six #Natural

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

#Gay #People #Everyday

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

#Inspirational #Beautiful #Powerful

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Getting Older #Looks #Wiser

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Cancer #Breast Cancer #Breasts

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

#Unique #Way #Authenticity

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Mother #Strong #Children

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

#Hair #People #Identity

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

#Strength #Heart #Diversity

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Pain #Soul #Alive

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

#Rocks #Stardom

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Gay #Long #Wake Up

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

#Children #Reality #Careers

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Running #Tape #Stillness

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.'
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Stars #Dad #Nice

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Lonely #Dark #Car

I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Feet #Thunder #Feels

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Angel #Fate #Mind

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Men #Men And Women #Equal

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Apples #Wife #Cider

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Letting Go #Goodbye #Baby

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Inspirational Life #Love Is #No Fear

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

#Views #Appreciate #Giving

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

#Stars #Powerful #Cancer

I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Wonderful #Loved Ones #Wonderful Family

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

#Song

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

#Holiday #Earth

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

#Moving On #Moving Forward #Hatred

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Medicine #Laughing #Stuff

I don't think anyone masters parenthood.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Thinking #Parenthood #Masters

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

#Strong #Responsibility #Opinion

I stand before you a totally healthy person.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Health #Healthy #Health Care

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.
-- Melissa Etheridge

#Chocolate #Cookies #Salad

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

#Lonely #Sweet #Soul