Melissa Etheridge Quotes

Be strong, speak true and spread the peace.

"She has her own opinion. If people want to listen to it, that`s fine...I don`t believe in shutting anybody up." - (2000) about Dr. Laura Schlessinger`s views against homosexuality

This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom. (Backstage speaking to the media at _79th Annual Academy Awards, The (2007) (TV)_ on her win for Best Song, "I Need to Wake Up" for the documentary _An Inconvenient Truth (2006)_.) (25 February 2007)

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

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

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

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

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.

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

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.

Love is never wrong.

Don`t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

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`ve sold my soul for freedom. It`s lonely but it`s sweet.

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

Mothers tell your children `Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.` Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.

In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin` you along