I'm a risk taker and I've always been like that, especially when it comes to fashion.

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 impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

To some education is just a bore

In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.

Time's up! Tomorrow just arrived.

I FELL DEEP down in there, until this bright light raised me from sleep. Coming out of a pit such as that, you think the bright light could be God or a cop on patrol.

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?

I've sung since I talked, when I'm two, but what I sang was ballads, because it's very hard to do a dance track with your little acoustic guitar when you're a kid.

I'm not waiting, but I'm willing if you called me up. If you ever wanna be in love, I'll come around