Melissa Lou Etheridge is an Academy Award-winning and two-time Grammy Award-winning American rock singer-songwriter and musician.
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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.”
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.”
“I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.”
“[Melissa Etheridge says she smoked medicinal marijuana to help with the side effects of chemotherapy during her treatment for breast cancer. The 44-year-old singer, who was diagnosed over a year ago, is now cancer-free.] Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana, ... Dateline NBC.”
“[The 44-year-old singer, who was diagnosed more than a year ago, is now cancer-free.] Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana, ... Dateline NBC.”
“Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.”
“In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin' you along”
“be home for dinner.”
“I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.”
“I don't fear death. I have a lot more to do,”