In a world where I have to hide my heart and what I believe in. But somehow I will show the world what's inside.

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.

Love, my territory of kisses and volcanoes.

When we have suffered a little while, we are restored in strength.

You know, darkness is a funny thing. Little by little, it creeps up on you and before you know it, you can’t escape it

Lucifer wasn't sure what to say. He'd survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

If you make a mistake, celebrate.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

The women of the United States are nothing but brood sows, having sons to be put into the army and made into fertilizer.

Like I said, a 30-year-old hockey player, even when I came to New York when I was 30, I was on the downside of my career, pretty much the end of my career.

Eating a vegetarian diet can contribute more to saving ourselves and the planet than any other single effort.