Cyndi Lauper

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

There have been great things that happened to me. If they didn't happen to me, I wouldn't be here. Everything was supposed…

— Cyndi Lauper

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…

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

“We lived large in a way that people who really live large don't - there's a spice, a richness, a joy that…

— Cyndi Lauper

You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong…

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper