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

Melissa Etheridge

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" Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. "

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

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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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" Chemotherapy tests your sanity. "

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

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

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" I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.' "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "

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

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

Melissa Etheridge

" 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. "

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