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" 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.' "

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" 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

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Love

Choose

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

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

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

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

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

Melissa Etheridge

Long

Waking Up

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

Melissa Etheridge

People

Songs

" 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. "

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

" People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long. "

" 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. "

" I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. "

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

" I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.' "

" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Melissa Etheridge

Five

Smoke

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

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

" I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet. "

" I have found that I'm just political just by being who I am. "

" 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. "

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

" All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal. "

" 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. "

" Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly. "