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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Melissa Etheridge

Diet

Old

Mouth

" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "

" 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. "

" I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening. "

" The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career. "

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

Melissa Etheridge

Loved Ones

Family

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

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

" 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

View

You

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up. "

Melissa Etheridge

Long

Waking Up

" Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel. "

" Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff. "

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

Melissa Etheridge

Write

Happens

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

" 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. "

Melissa Etheridge

People

Time

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

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

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

Melissa Etheridge

People

Songs

" 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

Life

Inspired

" 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

Care

Spirit

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone. "