I feel things deeply.

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.

A poet has a sacred duty. He has to hear unsung songs and see unseen beauty.

You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

What was it about women and crying that made me feel like crap? They must have guilt pheromones in their tears.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.

The only teaching that a professor can give, in my opinion, is that of thinking in front of his students.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.

What I'm saying is that until somebody steps up and actually has a forceful attack on Donald Trump and actually takes him down a notch, Donald Trump is just going to keep plowing through.