I really love traveling to Japan.

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 don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!

All my album artwork is body painting.

Return telephone calls promptly but be judicious about the time spent on the phone.

I am not your dog, but if every time you saw me, you gave me a backrub, I would run to greet you, too.

You, God, made yourself lowly and small to make us great!

I am really good at making Top Ramen. I also love it when my mom makes vegetarian lasagna for me.