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

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Melissa Etheridge
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: May 29
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Melissa Lou Etheridge
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I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'
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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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Mothers, tell your children: be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder, 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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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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To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
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Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.
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Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.
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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.
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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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I think the best way to be an activist is to live your life well and be honest. It means being out. If you are not comfortable marching, you can make a big difference just by working side by side with someone who actually knows you're gay and a fine human being.
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I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
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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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I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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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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The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
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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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Everybody's got a hunger no matter where they are. Everybody clings to their own fear. Everybody hides some scar - Precious pain. Empty and cold but it keeps me alive. I gave it my soul so that I could survive - keeping me safe in these chains.
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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'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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I am a songwriter. I do get to put my personal experiences in song.
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