Cyndi Lauper Biography

“If you're going to be the leader of a band, you'd better be kind. Well, I'm not. I tell my band, 'You know only the good die young? Well then, I'll be here a long, long time. You got a job with Cruella De Vil!’”

“It kills me when people talk about what I should have done! People compare me to Madonna, but she made her choices and I made mine. I built my own recording studio, I signed the cheques, I gave honour to my work. And I married, I had a kid, me!”

“I'm lucky to be grounded now. I know what I came to the planet to do: I'm making music.”

“I don't read my reviews on the road. If they're good reviews, you get lazy and a swelled head. If they're bad, it's going to mess you up anyway, so it's better not to read them and just try your best.”

“I'm a musician, and musicians are lifers. I didn't come this far to be told how and when to do anything. I'm going to do what I want to do. It's tough. The gatekeepers are tough. But you know what? Gatekeepers come and go, but musicians always play. Nobody can take that away from you.”

"I was always told you can either be a rocker or a mom -- you can't be both. But that was a load of crock, because every guy rocker was a dad, and my whole career was considered to be one big faux pas anyway."

"A song is like a dress -- you fit it to your body or to your voice."

“I tried being a lesbian when I was 15. It didn't work for me, so I don't ever fantasise about other women.”