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
All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.
Laughing is a medicine. It releases this amazing stuff.
I kind of thought when I was 30 that you're as good as your going to get. And that's not true.
I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
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.
I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'
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.
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.
My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.
I've been a rock star since you were very young. But I've never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.
I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.
I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
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.