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I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job.

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

Throughout my life, I have always believed in love; I've always put my heart in love. But I've seen fear take people so often. It's very scary.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

La Flavour's 'Mandolay' is a disco classic - I dare you to sit still while listening to it.

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what's really real, what's really hood.

Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.

It's important to find your tribe.

It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.

It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.

For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we've found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky... And that's how we stay entertained, and that's how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.

I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!