Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

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.

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

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.