Getting older, you just don't want to sing fluffy.

I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs.

You can never be too perfect, too thin, too curvy. I'm very confident and happy with my body.

I am Ecuadorian but people felt so safe passing me off as a skinny, blue-eyed white girl.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I remember watching the Grammys and looking at the performances and crying to my mom, saying how much I wanted to be there.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

I love traveling, but I hate planes.

Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street.

Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.

Perhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Once you finish the script, it's no longer yours; it's the other people making it, which sometimes can be hard.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.