Quotes from Melissa Etheridge

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.

Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.

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.

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

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.

There are many plant medicines that are available to us that have a lot of stigma around them that I hope, in the future, our medical community can look at, because I would absolutely go to those alternatives first before I went back to Western medicine.

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.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

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 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.

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in.

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.

I've worked since I was 11 years old, playing music and following the dream, and shaking and moving and doing it. And then, you have cancer and it was like 'Ooooohh.' It was like a big eraser. It was the only thing in my life that had ever made me just stop.

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can!

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

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

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.'

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That's because it's scary and it's inviting.

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

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

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

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

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

I stand before you a totally healthy person.