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No one to hear, you might as well scream.

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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
Scream
Sadness
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Might
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When you realize that we're the spirit that's in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.
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I can feel the thunder underneath my feet
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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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Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.
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The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
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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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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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I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.
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My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.
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I'm not one for big public displays of affection, anyway. Straight, gay, whatever.
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I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'
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I do believe in true bisexuality. We all have the capacity. [My partner] Julie is much more bisexual than I am. The more the world understands their bisexuality the better we'll be. I'm attracted to souls. I can be attracted to both.
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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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I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.
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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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You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.
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Chemotherapy tests your sanity.
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I think I've been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.
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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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