You’ve got me feeling like you’re that something I’ve been missing.

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.

Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle.

Everything flows nothing stays still.

Worry is a form of fear.

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

Love is finding someone better than you are, and holding on for dear life

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.