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" My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby. "
Melissa Etheridge
Love
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" 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. "
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" Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel. "
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" Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff. "
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" I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever. "
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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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" 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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" The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career. "
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" Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. "
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" Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana. "
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" I stand before you a totally healthy person. "
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" I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce. "
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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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" All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal. "
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" 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. "
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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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Time
" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Day
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" I'm very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones. "
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Family
Me
" 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. "
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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've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. "
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" Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away. "
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" Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. "
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" When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people. "
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