Quotes from Cyndi Lauper

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Everything does go in a circle.

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

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

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

Goonies are good enough, good enough for me

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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