Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.

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.

One does not cease to treasure a gem simply because one owns another that is larger.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

You are now, and you do become, what you think about.

I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

I’m glad the UFC wanted to work with me as well, and I think that they trust that I’ll never make them look bad. You never have to worry about me with a DWI or doing something crazy

The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.

Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.

We're all hoping that Trump doesn't get our world on his terms because there won't be anything of it left. Trump is a true psychopath, a psychopath in the way that tragedy becomes tragedy.

There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.