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

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.

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.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

I love being able to see an un-written future.

Christ alone makes possible everything you are as a Christian.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

If Plutarch is the essayist I want to believe he is, he would want us all to sit in his chair.

Do I look like a mess?” she asked. He nodded. “But you’re my mess,” he whispered.

Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small.

Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.