"As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought ... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are." - Cyndi Lauper
"God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with." - Cyndi Lauper
"Hey, I read comics!" - Cyndi Lauper
"Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch." - Cyndi Lauper
"I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?" - Cyndi Lauper
"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
"I used to get spanked. Yeah, my mother used to line us up and we'd get it with the belt. I think she was into music, cause we were all different sizes like a xylophone. But I've been through therapy, I'm OK now." - Cyndi Lauper
"I went to fashion industries for a year in high school and I got zero there, I flunked out, so I had to have my revenge on fashion and I had it for awhile in the '80s. Big revenge. Flunkin' me out, I'll show you." - Cyndi Lauper
"I'm in the business where you get the business all the time." - Cyndi Lauper
"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
"I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony." - Cyndi Lauper
"Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing." - Cyndi Lauper
"Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles." - Cyndi Lauper
"What am I, a car?" - Cyndi Lauper
"What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?" - Cyndi Lauper
"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
"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
"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
