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.

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

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

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

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

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.