Cyndi Lauper Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Everything does go in a circle.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

I've been a diva since I was four.