Cyndi Lauper's Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Everything does go in a circle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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