My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

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.

She haunts my dreams.Shadows of the past.Ripping my heart down the seams.No one to blame but me.I'm a lone wolf now, but I still stare up at the moon, Call her name and wonder if she's looking too...

In dreams begins responsibility.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

We need a global parliament, a global government and possibly a global ministry for security.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

My hair is naturally really thin and dead straight, with no movement.