Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

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.

Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.

Irrationally, I think, Will You Marry Me? Four words. I Want a Divorce. Four words. I would like time to count the letters as well, but there is not time.

I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.

WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.