I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

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.

Do You want to be Surrounded by Great People? There is an Appreciative Person, behind every Successful Person. Be that Person.

Lord I thank you for the timely provisions

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

Be happy and free. Be able to see psychically and understand what is going on in the universe, what your luminosity is about, and how to reorder your luminous fibers.

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.