Quotes from Cyndi Lauper

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

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

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.

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

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.

You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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