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.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

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

Don't take life too seriously.

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

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.