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" When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song. "
Cyndi Lauper
Myself
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Someone
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" I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow. "
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" I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me. "
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" 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! "
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" 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. "
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" There have been great things that happened to me. "
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" When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life. "
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" When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead. "
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" 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. "
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" My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone. "
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" With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create. "
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" I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker. "
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" I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like. "
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" I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. "
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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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" I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself. "
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" I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car? "
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" Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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