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" 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. "

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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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Forward

Moving

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

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" 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. "

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Care

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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. "

" I would never say I had a bad childhood at all. "

" Love is never wrong. "

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

" I have always loved Broadway. "

" 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. "

" I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.' "

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

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

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

Melissa Etheridge

Loved Ones

Family

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly. "

" Chemotherapy tests your sanity. "

" I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song. "

" 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'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. "

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

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Five

Smoke

" 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 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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People

Time

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

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