Quotes from Melissa Etheridge

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

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.

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.

I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.

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

I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.

I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge.

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!

Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul McCartney were inducted. We were at the bar, and Bruce was talking to Paul, and he turned to me and said, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Paul McCartney!' I thought, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Bruce Springsteen, who's talking to Paul McCartney!

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.

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

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

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.

Love is never wrong.

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

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

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

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.

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.

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

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

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.