Melissa Etheridge

“Weight isn't a factor in nutritional health.”

“I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this.'”

“My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.”

“My ultimate joy and happiness is being a wife and mother.”

“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.”

“I'm one of those people that will say, 'My cancer was a gift.'”

“I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through love and say, 'This is a wake-up call. This is my body telling me: 'Hey, you're out of balance here. It's time to get in line with yourself.'”

“Love is never wrong.”

“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.”

“Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.”

“I've sold my soul for freedom. It's lonely but it's sweet.”

“It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.”

“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.”