143 Quotes by Cyndi Lauper

If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn’t recognize me.

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

I don’t have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

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.

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

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.

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

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