I have six-year-old fans that weren't even around for 'Genie in a Bottle' or even 'Fighter.'

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.

Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

Courage is not the absence of Fear, but the ability to act in spite of fear!

Falling in love is very easy, but staying in love is very difficult.

Yet if all reality is subjective, all certitude is impossible.

I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.

They can't stop you if, in your heart, you seek enlightenment, empowerment, balance and knowledge.

Don't let anyone tell you otherwise - not our political opponents, and certainly not a disingenuous filmmaker, who would have us believe.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I think Barack Obama is an amazing man and president. His legacy is ongoing.

If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.