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

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

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

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.

I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

We are born nude and everything after that is drag.