I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

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.

Life is a lonely bussiness

The little weasel ripped all the buttons off my couch.Ivan Petrovsky, pg 350

Photobomb me at your own risk!

I'm too tired to speak in English.

I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am.

nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else.

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?