Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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Melissa Etheridge

Profession : Musician

Birth : May 29, 1961

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

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

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.

Melissa Etheridge

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Melissa Etheridge

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

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

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.'

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

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.

Melissa Etheridge

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

Melissa Etheridge

I have always loved Broadway.

Melissa Etheridge