I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could. Cyndi Lauper More Quotes by Cyndi Lauper More Quotes From Cyndi Lauper 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. Cyndi Lauper rocks jazz answers 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 head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea. Cyndi Lauper angel stars hands 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. Cyndi Lauper wigs color hair You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can. Cyndi Lauper kids children world If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time. Cyndi Lauper waiting friendship fall I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. Cyndi Lauper failing Everything does go in a circle. Cyndi Lauper circles doe Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing. Cyndi Lauper clothes loud complaining My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should. Cyndi Lauper joyful ive-learned people Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time. Cyndi Lauper mediocrity hypocrisy play When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun. Cyndi Lauper girl work fun You know, I've been playing with my hair color ever since I was nine. Cyndi Lauper color nine hair 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? Cyndi Lauper alternatives doe people It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women. Cyndi Lauper men dirty thinking I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. Cyndi Lauper marriage-equality lifelong today 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. Cyndi Lauper band writing school I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side. Cyndi Lauper endure lines sides Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time Cyndi Lauper stolen beats secret When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead Cyndi Lauper managers drink used Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same. Cyndi Lauper speaks-out voice america