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" 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 more commercially successful or whatever. "

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" 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. "

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" Everything does go in a circle. "

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

" When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song. "

" If you saw me without makeup, you wouldn't recognize me. "

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

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

" God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with. "

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

" I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself. "

" 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 disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like. "

" 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. "

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

Cyndi Lauper

Study

You

" 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! "

" 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 lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. "

" What, do you think that feminism means you hate men? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car? "

" 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 was the most peaceful time. "

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" With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create. "

" 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. "

" 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. "