When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed.

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.

Isn't better to excel in your work than wasting time on fruitless things ... after all to become the history, you have to write it.

I still really like newspapers. I'm gonna feel really sad when they go. Or not - maybe I'll be dead.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

I go to the dentist every six months, I get a cleaning, so... I'm fortunate enough that those fluoride treatments as a child worked. Not getting any cavities.

I'm really good at World of Warcraft. Like, crazy good. Put me in front of a computer and it's like I enter some other universe.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

Faith is facing reality without being discouraged by it.

I said all along that God is in control.

I do make a conscious effort to bring energy every day. Have fun, keep stuff light, all of that stuff.