Cyndi Lauper Quotations

I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

You always have to remember - no matter what you're told - that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.

The '80s was a really creative and brave period. Remember, it was a period of ultraconservatism, and so you needed brave people to push ahead like that.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That was the most peaceful time.

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

I'm not gonna worry about what people think about me. I'm too busy. I don't give a hoot.

There's ageism in everything. I don't give a hoot. It isn't what other people think; it's what you think. But it's hard to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Westwood.

Yes. It's all his fault. I was nice, very pure, never did anything wrong, and then he started in and started corrupting me.

I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?

My partner and I, we were talking about Christmas. And it's a holiday of the heart, and you know, like we listened to 'Silent Night' and 'In the Bleak Midwinter,' and that to me was like a lullaby, ... And after all, this holiday's about a baby. So I wanted to put a human face on this, and I said, 'Well, what would you say if you were singing to your baby, telling your baby about Christmas? What would you say?' And so I came up with this song.

I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.

I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.

My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.

I've been a diva since I was four.

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

There have been great things that happened to me.

I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

Goonies are good enough, good enough for me

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time...

You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.

Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.

Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.

People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles

It is not a dirty word, 'feminism'. I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else. ... The problem is, 'A feminist looks like this, or is like that'. We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.

You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.

Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

Everything does go in a circle.

I do have a lot of difficulty figuring out what I want to be working on, but what's the alternative? To be one of those people who has a million things they want to do, and then never does any of them? And then where will you be?

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead

If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.

Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.

If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.

Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want 10 people or 100? If you weed out colour or gender, you get 10.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW...

I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

I used to get spanked. Yeah, my mother used to line us up and we'd get it with the belt. I think she was into music, cause we were all different sizes like a xylophone. But I've been through therapy, I'm OK now.

The more you practice and study, the better you are... so I still practice and study all the time.

OK, let's really talk about Jenny. People who can fight, can --.