I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

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.

Silence is a deadly weapon

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.

The things that matter most to me are eternal. The bonds of love shared within a family I believe to be eternal.

Obviously anything that accessorizes or enhances the iPhone is always pretty cool.

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do.

In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

Let's also, my friends, let's raise the minimum wage and support the 5 for 15 so you don't live in poverty.

Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.

We're a planet of nearly six billion ninnies living in a civilization that was designed by a few thousand amazingly smart deviants.

There are many wonderfully qualified teachers out there, but that doesn't mean that each teacher is suitable to the same person, anymore than people fall in love with the same person.