Melissa Etheridge Quotes

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.

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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.

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We were just talking about how hard it is to come here and get all dressed up and know that there is someone sitting in their attic hoping they are not going to die. I called my manager today and I said what can I do. I hate this feeling of wanting to do something.

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

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The experience with my children brings me back to earth. I mean, I go out there and I'm looking at (bugs), you know, and I'm looking at snails. And there's the grass, and I'm getting down in it.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Love is never wrong.

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It does to me but I don't know if it will happen with that organization. But that's the future.

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Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

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At the end of the whole thing when it was over, I came home to a bouquet that said 'in sickness and in health,' and she means it, ... And the love and support of someone like that is worth all the money in the world.

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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.

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Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

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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.

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I had a lot of self-loathing, ... I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and ... so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110 supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.

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I stand before you a totally healthy person.

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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.

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No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it.

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

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