I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

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.

You just don’t get it. The point I’m trying to make—the point you’re deliberately ignoring—is that tomorrow it might all go away. You have to do what you want and take what you want now.

I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother thought I had learning disabilities.

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

They want everything to be better for their children. I think athletes are starting to see that and that's why they're starting to speak out.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

If the President asked you to help, I don't think anybody could refuse, unless one felt that one couldn't be effective.

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare.

Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare.

Never, never mind your bleeding heart.

I am flying back to New York as I write this. I will never forget these wonderful 35 days and I would go back to Copenhagen in a heartbeat to work there again.