My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

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.

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Write drunk; edit sober.

Now I've gone for too long Living like I'm not alive So I'm going to start over tonight Beginning with you and I

I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

This then is the age of reason.

What we are seeing is there is a lot of anger out there about the failure of the government to resolve the immigration crisis.

You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age.