When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

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.

Don't force it, if there isn't flow let it go.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

The real heroes are those ones who are forgotten, forsaken and remain the nameless ones, in the history of time.

Believing in the sovereignty of God injects courage in the act of desire.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

You can think of a number of bands where the first record is by far their biggest record. And that must be hard for people to recapture. Hard for people to live with.

I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Blessed be he who invented sleep, a cloak that covers all a man's thoughts.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes