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?”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“All I want to convey to anyone who is suffering while they're young is that sometimes you get a reprieve when you're older. Maybe it's just your perception that changes, but somehow it eases up, because life ebbs and flows. When you're ebbing, maybe you're strengthening your perspective of the world. And when you're flowing, maybe you can use everything to create, to write, to sing, act, and eventually stand taller and see farther.”

“I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.”

“I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.”

“I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“בדיוק כמו שאני אובססיבית להיסטוריה של האופנה, אני אוהבת לקרוא על ההיסטוריה של האיפור.”

“אם הייתם רואים אותי בלי איפור, לא הייתם מזהים אותי.”

“אני לא יכולה לשפוט איך אנשים אחרים מתנהגים. אני יכולה להסתכל רק על עצמי.”

“עם התהילה, אני מסוגלת ליצור יותר. עם כל הצלחה, יש לך יותר חופש ליצור.”

“המוזיקה שלי עוסקת בחוויה משמחת. למדתי שאם אתה יכול להשפיע על אנשים אחרים, אתה צריך.”

“God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.”

“There have been great things that happened to me.”

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