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

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.

It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "

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.

Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

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