I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate.

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.

Illusion close to reality was your love, you certainly are quintessential with your licks and promises.

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.

We'll eat your steam and lap up your blood. But first, we'll drink your screams

You can succeed at almost anything for which you have unbridled enthusiasm.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.

I'm 5 foot 2. I wish I were 5' 6. Everyone who meets me says, 'Oh my God. You look so much taller in person.'

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman.

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.