Cyndi Lauper Quotes Page 2

“It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.”

“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.”

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

“Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.”

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

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

“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.”

“On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.”

“People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.”

“People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.”

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

“Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“What? Do you think that feminism means you hate men?”

“When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this', and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead!'”

“When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“You always have to remember – no matter what you're told – that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.”

“You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.”

“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.”

“Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.”