Pain is rewarding, in every capacity.

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 poet is not an apostle

The greatest wisdom is to understand emptiness.

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

To buy deare is not bounty.

Singing is incredibly physical.

Los Angeles is a microcosm of the United States. If L.A. falls, the country falls.

Never say no. It always depends on what's possible. I don't care so much where it is; it's what I want to do that matters.

I believe all literature started as gossip.

Let me guess,' Ian said in a voice like ice. 'You fell on a rock.