I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.

Throughout my life, I have always believed in love; I've always put my heart in love. But I've seen fear take people so often. It's very scary.

I always bring an orange scarf, not just so I can wear it or tuck it into my pocket, but also so I can throw it over a lamp in the hotel room. Orange is my favourite colour, and it gives a lovely, warm ambience.

Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.

My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!

I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.

Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.

It's important to find your tribe.

I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

Honestly, it's important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.

La Flavour's 'Mandolay' is a disco classic - I dare you to sit still while listening to it.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we've found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky... And that's how we stay entertained, and that's how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.

People deal with grief in many different ways. And some people in show business parade their relationships around like an accessory, and others like to keep it separate from business and commerce. It's perfectly fine to say, 'I actually don't want to talk about my love because that's not part of the fantasy world I created in commerce.'

Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego.

Life's journey - it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.

I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

Everybody is in drag.

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

There are so many sensitive souls; they don't know what to do with their feelings.

It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.

I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

I'm ambitious. I work hard.

From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

Life is not to be taken seriously.

I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

For both men and women, an eyelash curler is a must. It gives your eye the appearance of being well-rested and wide open.

I enjoy being creative.

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That's what gay guys are, right? You're an accessory for my straight life.' Just because your limited view is that everyone's there to serve you and that you're the only person in the world. It doesn't work that way.

Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.