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

Melissa Etheridge

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Melissa Etheridge
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 29
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Leavenworth
Kansas
Melissa Lou Etheridge
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Certain
Feel
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Melissa
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I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
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I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.
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People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.
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I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.
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Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.
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I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.
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I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'
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Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.
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The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.
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When I grew up, there were no songs about gay people.
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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.
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I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight
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Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.
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I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
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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.
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I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
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Be strong, believe in who you are be strong, believe in what you feel.
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