I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

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.

I know I'm Worthier than you people are think..

I say, flawless poems do not exist.

The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

I am never sure that anythings good enough. Something that is good today will not be good tomorrow.

One does not adopt a new idea, one slips into it.

The cat is a character of being, the dog, a character of doing.

All good trips are, like love, about being carried out of yourself and deposited in the midst of terror and wonder.

I would rather live with the woman I love in a world full of trouble, than to live in heaven with nobody but men.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

In short, if you have any question about whether a particular movie, book, or other form of entertainment is appropriate, don’t see it, don’t read it, don’t participate.