You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to 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 don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.

When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.

The faster you search for a new partner, the faster you will get over your break-up blues…. Love is nothing more than an illusion.

Castes never meant that much to me.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say I think that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.

We must carry things beyond conversation to conclusion.