Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

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.

With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don't save anything for the walk home.

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

For a really long time, I've been trying to find balance where I can talk about my feelings and be upfront with people, confront issues and not have to beat them to death or ignore them.

A good rule for discussion is to use hard facts and a soft voice.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate

There were plenty of times some writers would make some kind of stupid joke to each other and then it was on TV that night or that week.

Being in touch with the problems in the world or our lives is important, but even more important is to focus the brain on what we can do about them.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries, ever, to be used against interests of ours.