I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

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 two of them looked so comfortable together it made Nico glad. But it also it caused an ache in his heart – a ghostly pain, like an old war wound throbbing in bad weather.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

For the first time in my life I'm really happy to be unattached because I realise there is so much responsibility to having a partner.

The thing with restaurant talk is you’re not supposed to take it to heart.

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

I'm very grateful to Jennifer Lopez, because I have something to talk about for the last couple of years.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.