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
Our great Constitution challenges us to grow constantly.
Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.
It does to me but I don't know if it will happen with that organization. But that's the future.
I wasn't able to watch television because it hurt. Music, sound hurt. You can smell everything, so anything anyone's eating makes you completely sick,
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.