Melissa Etheridge

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

I believed in Obama for social issues. I believe he brought our nation together and healed our racial divide. Martin Luther King's dream came true when he was elected. That's huge.

My wife works harder than anyone else with the children around the house. I make the money, sure, but she does everything else.

Political differences will always generate a healthy debate, but over time the dialogue has become more hateful and at times violent.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.