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I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.

I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!

On our show, I've only reached out and touched about 55 guys. I think there's still about 40 million.

Friends think your life is so glamorous, and it is. But there are times when, instead of going to a glamorous party, I would rather just come home from work, pop in a DVD and eat some microwave popcorn with a cutie on the sofa.

I wasn't always this confident. Growing up as the awkward gay kid in a small town in Pennsylvania, you're constantly told, 'Don't be yourself, don't be proud of who you are.'

My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I'm doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.

It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours.

We did a whole fraternity house. We made them over.

I've been doing makeovers on TV for years and years and years. It's something I really know how to do. I also know personally what it's like to not feel good about yourself.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

When I was growing up, I was obviously gay, and I got heckled every day of my life. The only way I knew how to survive was to make people laugh. If I could make them laugh, I wouldn't get hung in a locker for two hours. That's a blessing.

We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

One of my co-workers at Ralph Lauren heard about the show, and when she got back to the office, said; Carson, you have to call Bravo. They're doing a show. You're perfect for it.

I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

People are much deeper than stereotypes. That's the first place our minds go. Then you get to know them and you hear their stories, and you say, 'I'd have never guessed.

I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.

Show's going well. New season starting, we're on the road.

You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.