You've got to make a decision: Are you going to go down with the situation, or are you going to focus and succeed? My dream...kept me going.

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.

True wisdom gives the only possible answer at any given moment, and that night, going back to bed was the only possible answer.

Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....

That was the kind of life she’d had as a child, and it was the kind she wanted as an adult. But it hadn’t worked out that way. Things in life seldomdid, she’d come to understand

As many micro-credit schemes across the world can testify, investment in women is the best investment for the future.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

Poor Petey. I’d like to say I could almost feel a tender spot for poor Petey, but the truth is I’d rather feel at the tender spot on his head and give it a poke.

Walk humbly but walk confidently. People want to follow confident, humble leaders.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them.