Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridgeis an American rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist. Her self-titled debut album Melissa Etheridge was released in 1988 and became an underground hit. The album peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200, and its lead single, "Bring Me Some Water", garnered Etheridge her first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female. In 1993, Etheridge won her first Grammy award for her single "Ain't It Heavy" from her third album, Never Enough. Later that year, she...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth29 May 1961
CityLeavenworth, KS
CountryUnited States of America
I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.
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.
Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.
I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.
Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.
I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'
My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.
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.
I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.
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.
I stand before you a totally healthy person.
I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.
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.