I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

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.

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

God´s love proves God´s rightousness.

The three l’s of being are life, light and love.

Sometimes people don’t want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

I found fame to be somewhat of a prison. The more famous you were, the smaller the cell that you had to live in.

The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.

Love has the power that dispels death; charm that conquers the enemy.

Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.