180 Quotes by Melissa Etheridge

Chemotherapy tests your sanity.

Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.

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

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 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.'

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.

The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.

Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.

My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.