In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.

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.

Knowledge is to seek, but not a job...

If you follow, Practice and Live ‘Ownership’, you have arrived in Life!

Few men want to achieve greatness for humanity, thought Jeffrey. What better person is there to work for?

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.

Your heart is the light of this world. Don't cover it with your mind.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.