Love is never wrong. — Melissa Etheridge

There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier. — Melissa Etheridge

My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby. — Melissa Etheridge

We have a choice every day between fear and love. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it’s humor, sometimes it’s listening. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

I think I’d like to be inspirational to anyone who has a dream, anyone who wants to make more of their life than maybe what is set out in front of them. And you can! — Melissa Etheridge

Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am. — Melissa Etheridge

Life is full of wonder, love is never wrong. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

When you grow up in one town and your life revolves around it, you are very aware of any darkness on the edge of town. That’s because it’s scary and it’s inviting. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel. — Melissa Etheridge

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel. — Melissa Etheridge

I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel. — Melissa Etheridge

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that. — Melissa Etheridge

I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don’t let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live. — Melissa Etheridge

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it’s own greatest strength–it’s diversity. — Melissa Etheridge

I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I’m always referring to them in my work. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

I have found that I’m just political just by being who I am. — Melissa Etheridge

My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother. — Melissa Etheridge

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. — Melissa Etheridge

I’m one of those people that will say, ‘My cancer was a gift.’ — Melissa Etheridge

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn’t afraid of anything anymore. — Melissa Etheridge

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it’s serious, but it’s not the end–all. — Melissa Etheridge

I’ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I’ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer. — Melissa Etheridge

My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not. — Melissa Etheridge

The sweetness is in having success with something you truly believe in. — Melissa Etheridge

I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King’s dream came true when he was elected. That’s huge. — Melissa Etheridge

What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control–levels of energy that perhaps we don’t see. — Melissa Etheridge

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican. — Melissa Etheridge

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