Top 90 Melissa Etheridge Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Melissa Etheridge

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2. “The only thing that stays the same is change.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

5. “Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong...”

— Melissa Etheridge

6. “I can feel the thunder underneath my feet.”

— Melissa Etheridge

7. “We have a choice every day between fear and love.”

— Melissa Etheridge

8. “Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down – the legacy stops here.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

10. “Don’t let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.”

— Melissa Etheridge

11. “I’ve sold my soul for freedom. It’s lonely but it’s sweet.”

— Melissa Etheridge

12. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

14. “My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.”

— Melissa Etheridge

15. “Everybody’s got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar – Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive – keeping me safe in these chains.”

— Melissa Etheridge

16. “The night is black, as black as night.”

— Melissa Etheridge

17. “Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.”

— Melissa Etheridge

18. “Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.”

— Melissa Etheridge

19. “I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength – it’s diversity.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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20. “Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore.”

— Melissa Etheridge

21. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

22. “All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.”

— Melissa Etheridge

23. “Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It’s a holiday for the family and for everyone.”

— Melissa Etheridge

24. “I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.”

— Melissa Etheridge

25. “I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!”

— Melissa Etheridge

26. “I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don’t let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live.”

— Melissa Etheridge

27. “Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it’s serious, but it’s not the end-all.”

— Melissa Etheridge

28. “I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

30. “I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening.”

— Melissa Etheridge

31. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

32. “When you realize that we’re the spirit that’s in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.”

— Melissa Etheridge

33. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

34. “Weight isn’t a factor in nutritional health.”

— Melissa Etheridge

35. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

38. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

40. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

41. “No one to hear, you might as well scream.”

— Melissa Etheridge

42. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

43. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

44. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

45. “I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it’s just heavenly.”

— Melissa Etheridge

46. “Chemotherapy tests your sanity.”

— Melissa Etheridge

47. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

48. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

49. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

50. “I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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