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" 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. "

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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. "

Cyndi Lauper

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Thought

Path

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

Cyndi Lauper

Study

You

" 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. "

Cyndi Lauper

Always

Life

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life. "

" 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. "

" When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead. "

" Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker. "

" 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! "

" 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

Tall

Want

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone. "

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

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

" 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

Never

Rivalry