I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

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

I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.

When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.