When I first met my husband, I needed that helping hand to take the reins and look after me.

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 simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick.

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Let's create a legal system that can work.

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

I think without a doubt, that what is called "financial genius" is merely a rising market.

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam.