Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America.

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.

Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.

You were born into the world to fulfill a specific purpose in life. May you recognised your unique calling.

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

Dignity has no price ... when someone starts making small concessions, in the end life loses all meaning.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

People wait until late in their career to give back. But why wait when there is so much to be done?

The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance.