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. – Cyndi Lauper
Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup. – Cyndi Lauper
I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side. – Cyndi Lauper
Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
My music is about a joyful experience. I’ve learned that if you can affect other people, you should. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
I don’t have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. – Cyndi Lauper
I’ve always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
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? – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
With fame, I’m able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create. – 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. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
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. – Cyndi Lauper
