I find fragrance to be such a mood enhancer and definitely a seduction tool.

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.

The greatest of tragedies is a life lived without knowing its purpose. Discover your purpose and life will take on a new meaning.

Do you always try to upset the world as much as possible?" Clare asked.He gave her a surprised look. "Of course. Otherwise how does anything change?

Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.

I'm convinced that had I not changed my name, I don't think I would have had quite the same career curve that I eventually had.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.