When you're seventeen years old, green and inexperienced, you're grateful for any guidance and direction you can get.

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.

He was bested by a better fighter, ...I didn't feel like he was intimidated. If I made a mistake he would have punished me.

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

Genres pop up and get hot and then they die down.

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it

If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect.

Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

If the members of a home are ill-temperered and quarrelsome, how quickly you feel it when you enter the house. You may not know just what is wrong, but you wish to make your visit short.

One must be aware that one is continually being tested in what one wishes most in order to make clear whether one's heart is on earth or in heaven.