Melissa Etheridge Quotes


"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
(Related: Life, Songs)

"Love is never wrong."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Love, Wrong)

"I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Cancer)

"I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Soul, Freedom, Lonely)

"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
(Related: Power, Hair, Problems, Self)

"I stand before you a totally healthy person."
- Melissa Etheridge
"I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Heart, Strength, Diversity, Nation)

"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
(Related: Fear, Being, Hatred, Understanding)

"Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel."
- Melissa Etheridge
"I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine."
- Melissa Etheridge
(Related: Heaven, Hell)

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