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'm ambitious. I work hard.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Everybody is in drag.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

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

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.

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.