It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.

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.

I don’t want to know what time it is. I don’t want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

The land of delight is holy sanctuary.

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

A map is not a journey.

You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world.

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.