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.
— Melissa Etheridge
There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.
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.
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.
Love is never wrong.
I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am.
Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
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 think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.
I stand before you a totally healthy person.
I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.
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.
Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
