Becoming a mother has helped me to realize who I am aside from my career.

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.

We are more than the worst thing that's ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing, for having been to hell and come back breathing.

Achievement is not important, attempt is...!

To Extend Kingdom Principles Is To See Its Lifestyle Manifest

Death is a part of life. It is inevitable. It is not to be feared

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Russia has cultivated an opaque network of patronage across the region that it uses to influence and direct decision- making.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters.

A lot of people just capitulate and say, "Well, that's just the way things are." I think that can be deadly for creative people.

While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.