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 to come to terms with getting older. I admire people like Vivienne Wes...”

“I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your...”

“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.”

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

“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 disagr...”

“I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be mor...”

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

“Before I became famous I had a very full life, and that gave me a lot to pick from. I always use everything. It always comes in handy. Working with animals... Well, I just enjoyed that. That...”

“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.”

“You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine.”

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

“I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little diffe...”

“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.”

“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 have to be like anyone else.”

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

“Sharon Osbourne is such a blast and she's so, so bright.”

“I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.”

“I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.”