It's amazing how a truly great songwriter can touch anyone in the world with their words.

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.

Man confesses God forgives

Paths are many, Truth is ONE!

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.

I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to transition away from fossil fuels very, very quickly.

In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

I'm never quite sure if I'm me when I'm dressed up.

A brand is nothing but an expression of the consumer’s loyalty and trust.

I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.