Cyndi Lauper Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

There have been great things that happened to me.

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.

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

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.

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

Goonies are good enough, good enough for me

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.

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.

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

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.

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