Melissa Etheridge

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.

Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.