Cyndi Lauper Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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?

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.

If you're lost you can look and you will find me. Time after time. If you fall I will catch you, I'll be waiting. Time after time

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

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.

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.

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

I've been a diva since I was four.

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.

We lived large in a way that people who really live large don't - there's a spice, a richness, a joy that working-class people have. And even though we were kind of products of misery, we still had a vibrance.

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

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

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

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?

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.

There have been great things that happened to me.

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.

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

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

Money changes everything.

I used to say I was Saint Cyndi of a Feces, because wherever shit fell, there I was.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

All I want to convey to anyone who is suffering while they're young is that sometimes you get a reprieve when you're older. Maybe it's just your perception that changes, but somehow it eases up, because life ebbs and flows. When you're ebbing, maybe you're strengthening your perspective of the world. And when you're flowing, maybe you can use everything to create, to write, to sing, act, and eventually stand taller and see farther.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I still am a little late, though. I'm trying. There's a lot of shit to do to pull this old ass together.

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

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.

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

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