I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.

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.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

You may not understand what all's happening in your life right now, but any possible explanation pales in comparison to what you do know because of your faith in God's goodness and assurance.

Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear.

I've always just been really interesting in humans, whether I knew it or not, back then. To be able to recreate that and express that was definitely something I wanted to do.

The best service you can do is to keep your thoughts on God. Keep God in mind every minute.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.