After all you've put me through, you would think I despise you, but in the end I want to thank you because you made me that much stronger.

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.

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

Nirvana is not really a physical place, although sometimes I talk about it as if it were. It is not really an experience, although sometimes I mention it as if it was.

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

A duel, a duel, a duel. Is there anything more exciting, more romantic ... or more utterly moronic?

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.

The dead see what they believe they will see. So do the living. That is the secret.

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.