I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

Everyone gets drunk and makes out with the wrong guy sometimes.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.