Top 90 Melissa Etheridge Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I’m very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.”

— Melissa Etheridge

52. “I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter – oh my God, shoot me.”

— Melissa Etheridge

53. “What people don’t get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

55. “Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.”

— Melissa Etheridge

56. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

59. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

61. “My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.”

— Melissa Etheridge

62. “I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

64. “I stand before you a totally healthy person.”

— Melissa Etheridge

65. “In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you’re going to find lesbians because they’re responding to that more aggressive side.”

— Melissa Etheridge

66. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

67. “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

68. “I’m not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

70. “I’ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I’ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.”

— Melissa Etheridge

71. “What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control – levels of energy that perhaps we don’t see.”

— Melissa Etheridge

72. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

73. “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.’”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

75. “I’m so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, ‘Mom! Turn the music down!’”

— Melissa Etheridge

76. “I don’t think anyone masters parenthood.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

78. “Cancer’s like the ultimate excuse. Who’s gonna say, ‘Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?’ ‘Hey, I got cancer. I can’t be there.’ It’s the ultimate eraser.”

— Melissa Etheridge

79. “I have days when I say, ‘I’m going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.’ I’ll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.”

— Melissa Etheridge

80. “There’s a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there’s this stillness of your own – I got to know myself.”

— Melissa Etheridge

81. “The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

84. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

85. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

86. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

87. “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.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

89. “I’m for gay marriage, because I’m for gay divorce.”

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge

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

— Melissa Etheridge