I always have the TV on. When there's no TV, I play music. I like having noise. I think that's why New York is so suitable for me, because it's never really fully quiet.

My inspirations come from everywhere. It's important to look at everything and anything.

Being feminine in the way you dress doesn't have to compromise who you are as a woman or your career.

I miss All Stars, by the way. I was just telling people: how am I going to get by until January?

I hope being gay isn't the most interesting thing about me.

The idea of transformation is super-important to me. You can see it in the way I approach things. I have never been a clean-faced, freshly scrubbed hair person. I'm the New York designer who doesn't do that. I think about the hair and makeup almost as much as I think about the clothes because it all has to work.

I think what I create is serious fashion, but I don't want to keep my focus on that. You have to look at a lot of different things. I mean, people are always surprised when they find out that my favorite show is RuPaul's Drag Race.