77+ Melissa Etheridge Quotes On Relationships, Broadway And Broadway 2023

Melissa Etheridge is an American singer-songwriter and musician. She is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals. She has won two Grammy Awards and has had four top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Melissa Etheridge on love, life, relationships.

Top 10 Melissa Etheridge Quotes

1. Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.
2. You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.
3. It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.
4. Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
5. We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.
6. 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.
7. We have a choice every day between fear and love.
8. 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.
9. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• I wanted to be out so I could relax and be me.
• I had to go see the Glee concert with my daughter - oh my God, shoot me.
• I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.
• My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
• Im one step ahead of my past, two steps behind my dream.
• I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.
• I taught Brad Pitt how to fly-fish in my swimming pool!
• Don't let people who live in fear and hate govern how you live.
• I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
• I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

Melissa Etheridge Quotes About Love

Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. Remember how they taught you, how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down - the legacy stops here. — Melissa Etheridge

I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem. — Melissa Etheridge

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.' — Melissa Etheridge

Love is never wrong. — Melissa Etheridge

My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby. — Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge Quotes About Life

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. — Melissa Etheridge

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. — Melissa Etheridge

I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

I think I'd like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can! — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge Quotes About Soulful

I do believe in true bisexuality. We all have the capacity. [My partner] Julie is much more bisexual than I am. The more the world understands their bisexuality the better we'll be. I'm attracted to souls. I can be attracted to both. — Melissa Etheridge

Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains. — Melissa Etheridge

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive. — Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge Quotes About Powerful

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

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. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that. — Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge Quotes About Feel

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. — Melissa Etheridge

I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live. — Melissa Etheridge

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work. — Melissa Etheridge

I can feel the thunder underneath my feet — Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge Quotes About Health

I stand before you a totally healthy person. — Melissa Etheridge

Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health. — Melissa Etheridge

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line. — Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Etheridge Famous Quotes And Sayings

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy. — Melissa Etheridge

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

What's happening right now, this month, I check in and go, 'Hey. You are at the top of a wave right now. Look around and enjoy it because it's not going to stay,' ... The wave goes away. It does not dictate how good I am or my worth. It's just the way it happens. — Melissa Etheridge

I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight — Melissa Etheridge

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

I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge. — Melissa Etheridge

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been. — Melissa Etheridge

To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it. — Melissa Etheridge

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

No one to hear, you might as well scream. — Melissa Etheridge

This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom. — Melissa Etheridge

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

It's so hard to listen to these trains outside my window, here it comes again. And it's calling me, begging me, follow me down the track. And it moans so dark and low, baby ain't comin' back... It sounds like crying, it sounds like letting go. Breathing and lying, sinking and dying slow. And I watch from my window, touching the cold glass sky. As the train rolls down the track, I say goodbye. — Melissa Etheridge

I'm only lonely when I'm driving in my car. I'm only lonely after dark. I'm only lonely when I watch my TV. I'm only lonely occasionally. — Melissa Etheridge

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything. — Melissa Etheridge

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in. — Melissa Etheridge

The only thing that stays the same is change. — Melissa Etheridge

I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine. — 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. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people. — Melissa Etheridge

I have that gene mutation too and it’s not something I would believe in for myself. I wouldn’t call it the brave choice. I actually think it’s the most fearful choice you can make when confronting anything with cancer. 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. — Melissa Etheridge

Somebody bring me some water/can’t you see I’m burning alive. — Melissa Etheridge

I'm so cool that the kids come to my bedroom and go, 'Mom! Turn the music down!' — Melissa Etheridge

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it. — Melissa Etheridge

The night is black, as black as night. — Melissa Etheridge

I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever. — Melissa Etheridge

Life Lessons by Melissa Etheridge

1. Melissa Etheridge has taught us that it's important to stay true to yourself and your passions, no matter what life throws at you. She has also shown us that it's important to take care of yourself and your mental health, and to never give up on your dreams. Lastly, she has shown us that it's possible to overcome adversity and come out stronger on the other side.