My kids and I love to listen to Bill Cosby.
Cancer’s like the ultimate excuse. Who’s gonna say, ‘Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?’ ‘Hey, I got cancer. I can’t be there.’ It’s the ultimate eraser.
I think I’ve been on a path ever since I was born, a path of high stress. I put myself, my career, it was a big old juicy carrot right in front of me for all of my life.
It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.
When you realize that we’re the spirit that’s in our bodies and our bodies are like the vehicles that take us around, you realize that you have to take care of that body.
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 don’t think anyone masters parenthood.
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel.
I have days when I say, ‘I’m going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.’ I’ll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.
The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
I have found that I’m just political just by being who I am.
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 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.
I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.
Realizing I was gay was a long sort of waking up.
I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.
I’m very fortunate that I have a wonderful family around me and loved ones.
I’ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I’ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.