Whether you like me, or hate me, this is 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.

I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

I don't think there's ever a right time to have kids. I'm actually pretty glad it's happened quite young.

Some women have said, 'Gee, here I am getting involved with this fat guy, what will people think of me?' But they were converted and sometimes surprised.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

You're kind of numb after 50 shots to the head.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful.

It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.

A man who deals in fairness with his own, he can make manifest justice in the state.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables