So now the devil's in my soul.

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.

It's an imperfect world, so you fit in perfectly.

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.

Birds of a feather flock together.

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

At the gym; I've given up trying to get in really good shape, and re-committed myself to not getting any worse.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

When we practice loving kindness and compassion we are the first ones to profit.

Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.