It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.

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.

Reading is an escape people use in order to get away from reality. It is a chance to be free and explore who you are.

We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.

I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

West Ham play a speficic type of game - football.

Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us.