People don't always want to have females as leaders.

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.

The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

The money is the only source of smile for the poor.

You dont have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

Things that matter in this life can not be bought. Friends, truth, and a passion for life.

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure that is where they want to be.

Before I was nine years old, I had been a socialist. When young, everyone is a socialist; later he becomes cleverer.

If any of you happens to see an injustice, you are no longer a spectator, you are a participant, and you have an obligation to do something.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.