I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

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.

Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.

We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

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

It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.