In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

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.

A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.

The wise person finds enemies more useful than the fool does friends .

Most of the time I think we're really pretty positive and optimistic, and we're so lucky to have the life that we have and had with him.

Music begins and ends in the air - it's got to be shared.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

The spirit of love and good art have equal beauty

Can't you see the angel imprisoned in the block of stone trying to get out? I am trying to free him

The human digestive and visual systems did clearly evolve over a very long period.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the skyAnd the affrighted steed ran on alone,Do not weep.War is kind.