I felt caged by my childhood.

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.

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.

It’s a full-time job being homeless. It’s a full-time job being poor.

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again.

Women's rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved.

Don't run away. Im not running away. Im already gone. -Lena and Ethan

If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.

Ours is no bloody battle With woe and horror fraught Our joust is of a gentler kind A measuring of Mind with Mind A tournament of thought