I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down!

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.

Your creation are the outcome of your decisions.

The best thing about Art is that the people who create it live forever.

I just always want to be different - THE EXCEPTION - and this weekend knocked me right back to reality.And the reality is - I AM TRULY BLESSED ..

I've never been drunk but often I've been overserved.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.

Most people don't why they are born or why they die. They have no understanding of the forces in life that pull them and push them to their death and another rebirth in this or another world.

I don’t think there’s ever what could be called a "chilled state" in my head.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.