Right now I'm pretty single... My career is my boyfriend.

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.

The warnings given to the Hebrews against assimilating with the heathen were not more direct or explicit than are those forbidding Christians to conform to the spirit and customs of the ungodly.

When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

Even when I haven't had money, I found money to travel. It's a luxury that's a kind of necessity, I think.

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

We are working on creating self-describing, self-organizing, self-diagnosing and self-repairing networks.

By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors.

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.

By reeducating the mind, you can accept fear as simply a fact of life rather than a barrier to success.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.