When you're part of a pop phenomenon, you have so many opinions shoved down your throat.

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.

By leading ourselves effectively, we can learn to lead others as a whole person: mind, body, and spirit.

I was not a name I was not a face. I was not going to finance a movie. No one was going to come and pay tickets to see me.

Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.

Two reasons I come down here every year: the food and there are multiple guys here every year.

How sweet to die after one's enemies.

My life is very much consumed with work.

As we begin to love and appreciate ourselves as we are, our channels open and we access the infinite vitality of life force.

The best reason for a knitter to marry is that you can't teach the cat to be impressed when you finish a lace scarf.

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.