I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

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.

The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.

Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated

Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.

My name ain't Keith, so could you lease stop Sweatin' me.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

He must have a long spoon that eats with the devil.

I try to put my culture in all my music, as much as I can.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.