We take food for granted, but it isn't a luxury for many people.

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.

I wish I could read a couple of thousand words a day. Words written by someone else for a change!

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.

Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of water.

This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding; my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.

[When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

I feel the reasons my songs might seem dark is because of how I viewed the situations I was in and it was just something I always felt like documenting.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

I learned that strength, like height, is measured by who you're standing next to.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.