I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

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.

[No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

He was beneath the waves, a creature crawling the ocean bottom.

Wow, I didn’t even hesitate to call her my girlfriend. That’s a first.

China has been committed to the independent foreign policy of peace and has developed friendship and cooperation with all countries on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence.

If God had consulted me before embarking on the Creation, I would have suggested something simpler.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

Elend started. "Vin!" Then, he smiled. "What took you so long?" "I got delayed by an Inquistor and a dark god," she said. "Now hustle.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

If you knew me yesterday, please do not think that it is the same person that you are meeting today.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.