Cyndi Lauper Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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.