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I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

I love Ashford & Simpson, and I love the Brothers Gibb. They are amazing.

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

I've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion.

Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

I love games. My favorite thing on this planet to do is to play games. And if you don't enjoy games, then you're really missing the point of what this life is.

It's a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, 'I come in peace.' I come in peace. That's why it's important.

In my life, I've been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren't outsiders don't get a chance to do.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

I'm ambitious. I work hard.

People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That's what gay guys are, right? You're an accessory for my straight life.' Just because your limited view is that everyone's there to serve you and that you're the only person in the world. It doesn't work that way.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

Young people need to know there are ways for them to navigate this life.

Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.

I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag.

Everybody is in drag.

I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.