I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

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.

I think the way the sun shines on you has nothing to do with the sun but everything to do with you.

Orozco's despair was not just in finding himself poor, but in discovering that effort, honest intentions, and gentlemanly status had nothing to do with sucess in a commercial economy.

The only way to make a difference is to acquire power.

Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!

I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

A Christian is one who stops working to be saved, not one who stops working!

Democracy means the power of the people and the possibility of influencing the governing parties. Russia had had enough experience with a one-party-system - we will not go back there.