I'm a huge mediator.

Years and years of therapy taught me to speak up because speaking up is what gets things done and gets your story and your voice heard.

I was one of the people that always got chosen last, and I think I bulked up my comedy bone to make up for my lack of friends.

I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.

The Brits know how crazy Adele is. Americans have no clue about Adele and how crazy she is!

'RuPaul's Drag Race' is a show about love, art, passion, acceptance, and the quest for finding America's next drag superstar. No show on the telly box has more grit than these queens.

My humour is spot on.

Ru and I have been best friends since, well, let's just say they used the telegraph when we first met. Being able to work with my BFF is a dream come true and even more? To see what he has done for himself, the art of drag and the gay community in general constantly blows me away.

Selfridges - we just look; we don't shop!

For the kids out there that are worried about what the future holds, especially the LGBTQI+ kids, our brothers and sisters that came before us didn't fight for nothing. Trust me: we will only move forward, but you need to put your fear aside and find the strength to believe that.

Personally, I think what's happening in my beautiful country is embarrassing, but I also know that Trump doesn't speak for the majority of us.

I never felt welcome in the heteronormative groups.

When I moved to New York, the gay community welcomed me with open arms and told me how beautiful I was. I will never turn my back on them.

It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.

I try to be happy as much as I can. I'm really not a downer; I hate victims. I hate needy people. I'm that person who always tries to make the best of any situation. I'm probably happiest when I'm with my kids or with a gaggle of gays.

Any time you get to see a bunch of drag queens performing music and performing songs and being idiots, I'm in.

The beautiful thing about 'Drag Race' is it's the most inclusive television show, probably on the planet. It's the place where kids go because they feel like they don't fit in anywhere else. It's the place they go to feel safe.

'Drag Race' is the escape that everybody needs - gay, straight, or otherwise.

I'm a real theatre kid - that's all I ever wanted to be.

When I was younger, I would write a ton, mostly because my mom told me I had incredible creativity and a gift of using words, only these were words that didn't get me in trouble.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder for real.

I'm a musichead. My favorite Gaga song of all time is 'You & I' - it might not be the popular vote in terms of charts or sales, but it's my favorite.

I think if you buy the 'Christmas Queens 2' album, there will be songs you love and songs you hate, just like every other album.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

I'm an intimidating figure.

I get tons of emails every day from a lot of gays and young girls asking for help with their self-confidence and to heal and to feel. Even though I'm not an equipped social worker, I think the mom presence that I have makes them feel safe.

My husband's my soul mate. At the same time, RuPaul's my soul mate.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

There's only RuPaul.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

Give Good Face is about keeping an air of confidence on the outside and showing everybody that you have what it takes.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

I got involved in the underground world known as ballroom culture, and I used to walk a category called 'face,' and it was a very heavily Latino culture - it's black and Latino - and they used to call me 'cara,' which means face in Spanish, so I started putting 'cara' on everything: hats, jackets.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

I think we've seen every type of drag come across the stage of 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' and there is no end in sight of what can be on the stage.

You can't get anything gayer than 'RuPaul's Drag Race!'

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, 'If you want to be recognized, you need to go out to a club.' Because we didn't have computers. We didn't have social media. We didn't even have cellphones. So you had to go out to be recognized.

When I grew up where I grew up, things were very, very different, and nobody had a filter. And that's what brought us together.

My mother was incredible.

My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give me anything I wanted, within reason. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but being an adopted kid, I think we had a different connotation. My parents tried extra hard, I think.

For red-carpet gowns, Christian Siriano is one of my favourites.

I was raised in New York, so that's the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I'm a huge fan of Dublin as well.

Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.

I am just forthcoming - completely blunt and honest.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.