The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

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.

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near

Spend the beautiful days of your life to someone you want to spend with until your last breath.

My mind aches with a thousand stories. All variations with shredded threads of truth.

Don´t ever scared to dream because everything is possible no matter how bizarre.

The only reason nice guys finish last is because they think they’ll finish last. You don’t win the race by walking around the starting line saying ‘I’m not going to win this race’.

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

[from a reader] Whenever I feel myself resenting someone, I reach out. I have made good friends that way.

If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect average day look like?

What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust.

If you have not done so yet, decide to decide.