I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

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.

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life

I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines

Look for Miracles

Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

O help/ Me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, help. Thou art/ Mine only hope. -Leia Organa

I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race.

I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.

Peace Within. Peace Without. Mi Zai