Melissa Etheridge Quotes

Bruce has always been so nice to me, which is crazy, because he's one of my heroes. I'll never forget being at a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony the year Bruce and Paul McCartney were inducted. We were at the bar, and Bruce was talking to Paul, and he turned to me and said, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Paul McCartney!' I thought, 'I can't believe I'm talking to Bruce Springsteen, who's talking to Paul McCartney!

~ Melissa Etheridge

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

~ Melissa Etheridge

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.

~ Melissa Etheridge

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

~ Melissa Etheridge

Love is never wrong.

~ Melissa Etheridge

Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It's a holiday for the family and for everyone.

~ Melissa Etheridge

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

~ Melissa Etheridge

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.

~ Melissa Etheridge

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 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.

~ Melissa Etheridge

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.

~ Melissa Etheridge

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

~ Melissa Etheridge

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

~ Melissa Etheridge

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.

~ Melissa Etheridge

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

~ Melissa Etheridge

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

~ Melissa Etheridge