Top 70 Cyndi Lauper Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Money changes everything.”

— Cyndi Lauper

2. “If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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3. “And I’ll see your true colors shining through. I see your true colors and that’s why I love you. So don’t be afraid to let them show. Your true colors, true colors are beautiful, like a rainbow...”

— Cyndi Lauper

4. “Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.”

— Cyndi Lauper

5. “The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.”

— Cyndi Lauper

6. “When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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7. “If you think you’re hearing something and you can’t think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you’ll find my kindred spirit. There you’ll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.”

— Cyndi Lauper

8. “It’s a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.”

— Cyndi Lauper

9. “Sometimes my mind boggles. It’s so deep my mind actually boggles.”

— Cyndi Lauper

10. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

11. “Everyone – whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender – should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.”

— Cyndi Lauper

12. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

14. “I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I – a car?”

— Cyndi Lauper

15. “On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.”

— Cyndi Lauper

16. “If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.”

— Cyndi Lauper

17. “I don’t know many people who don’t have somebody in their family who’s a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It’s not like they’re aliens or outsiders. This is family.”

— Cyndi Lauper

18. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

20. “I’ve been a diva since I was four.”

— Cyndi Lauper

21. “I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I’ll go blind.”

— Cyndi Lauper

22. “Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.”

— Cyndi Lauper

23. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

24. “Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else’s are even tougher.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

26. “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

27. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

30. “When I sing I don’t feel like it’s me. I feel I am fabulous, like I’m 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I’m whoever I want to be.”

— Cyndi Lauper

31. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

32. “You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.”

— Cyndi Lauper

33. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

34. “With fame, I’m able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

37. “People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.”

— Cyndi Lauper

38. “What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?”

— Cyndi Lauper

39. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

40. “I lucked out when I started to sing. I’d already experienced failing at everything else.”

— Cyndi Lauper

41. “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.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper

43. “I can’t judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.”

— Cyndi Lauper

44. “I knew Queen Elizabeth didn’t do any laundry! I knew I wasn’t going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.”

— Cyndi Lauper

45. “Goonies are good enough, good enough for me.”

— Cyndi Lauper

46. “I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.”

— Cyndi Lauper

47. “Everything does go in a circle.”

— Cyndi Lauper

48. “Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.”

— Cyndi Lauper

49. “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 different from me but, hey, ya got one head.”

— Cyndi Lauper

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

— Cyndi Lauper