Quotes from Cyndi Lauper

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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

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 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.

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.

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