It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

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

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 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.

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

You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me.