The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.

As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

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

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.