I used to say I was Saint Cyndi of a Feces, because…

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to…

— Cyndi Lauper

“My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.” Cyndi Lauper People Magazine July 8, 2013”

— 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

I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously,…

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— 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…

— Cyndi Lauper

When I was 15, all my friends came out. I was really trying to be like them, and I finally had to tell my…

— 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…

— Cyndi Lauper

“Not for nothing, but if you do that again, I'm gonna have to punch ya fuckin' heart out!”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.

— Cyndi Lauper

I hope God is a drag queen, so we have a lot to discuss about fashion, makeup and cleavage.

— 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…

— Cyndi Lauper

If you want a strong society, it has to be inclusive. If you have to push a boulder up a hill, do you want…

— Cyndi Lauper