Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

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.

Face your fear and wipe your tears.

But though hast come and all will surely change.

Mother Earth reintroduced me to my people.

Don’t be the majority, just hoping for your name to be called, because it won’t happen.

Light a candle against the darkness...

I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

Let's hold hands and brave this beautiful, crazy life together with a sweet smile and a calm breath.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.