Melissa Etheridge Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.'”

“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.”

“Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.”

“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.”

“People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.”

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

“Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.”

“Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.”

“I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.”

“I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.”