The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

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

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

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