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.

When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

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

A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.