It's important to find your tribe.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.

I dance to the beat of a different drummer.

Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.

It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.

'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.

Young people need to know there are ways for them to navigate this life.

The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.

I've been on both sides; I've interviewed people, and I do an okay job, I guess. But it's awful. Because you feel like you have to defend your life, which is such an interesting concept. It's not an easy process to sit down and talk about, 'What's your motivation?' Because as I'm answering, I'm working it out for myself at the same time.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport.

Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me.

If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

I've always idolized people who can write songs.