Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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.

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.

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.

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

I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

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

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.

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

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

I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.

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.

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.

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

This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom.

I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.

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

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.

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

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

Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.

I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

We have a choice every day between fear and love.

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

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

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

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

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

I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and .. so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110% supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of? I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.

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.'

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.

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.

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.

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

The night is black, as black as night.

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

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

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.

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.

My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.

I can feel the thunder underneath my feet

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,

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 could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.

Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

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

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

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

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.

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!

The only thing that stays the same is change.

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.

I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

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!

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

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

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

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.

Love is never wrong.

I have always loved Broadway.

I do believe in true bisexuality. We all have the capacity. [My partner] Julie is much more bisexual than I am. The more the world understands their bisexuality the better we'll be. I'm attracted to souls. I can be attracted to both.

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need ... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

No one to hear, you might as well scream.

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.

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.