Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She's a Scorpio, like me.

Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.

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 hard to get intimate with an audience.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

My focus is on love and inclusiveness.

I have always worked and did my work on the fringe, where I have feel very comfortable.

I try to do three active things a day because I have to fit into costumes that are very tight.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture - but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me.

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've been on both sides; I've interviewed people, and I do an okay job, I guess. But it's awful. Because you feel like you have to defend your life, which is such an interesting concept. It's not an easy process to sit down and talk about, 'What's your motivation?' Because as I'm answering, I'm working it out for myself at the same time.

The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.

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

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

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

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

Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.

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.

I always bring an orange scarf, not just so I can wear it or tuck it into my pocket, but also so I can throw it over a lamp in the hotel room. Orange is my favourite colour, and it gives a lovely, warm ambience.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

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

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.

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.

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

It's important to find your tribe.

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.

Honestly, it's important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.

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

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

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.

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and others like to keep it separate from business and commerce. It's perfectly fine to say, 'I actually don't want to talk about my love because that's not part of the fantasy world I created in commerce.'

Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego.

Life's journey - it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.

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.

Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.