I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.

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.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty

So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

They may call your victories, "lucky"...They may mock your failures...They may laugh at your heartache...But still, they will never be happy. This is the cyclical emptiness of the hater mindset.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories.

Loss alone is but the wounding of a heart; it is memory that makes it our ruin.

No matter what happens, it’s always now.

Our bodily eye findeth never an end, but is vanquished by the immensity of space.

Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

I learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology ever taught me.