143 Quotes by Cyndi Lauper

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

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.

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.

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.

If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.

I learned jazz; that comes from blues. I learned rock; that comes from blues. I learned pop; that comes from blues. Even dance, that comes from blues, with the answer-and-response.

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

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