You’re born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you’re a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.
Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.
Loving yourself – it really takes a daily practice.
It’s important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.
The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you’re out there.
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.
Throw a little shade when you need to.
The truth is – most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing’s a failure, it’s a continuation.
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.
Don’t take life too seriously and have fun. Don’t waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.
I chose to devote the lion’s share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.
When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early ’80s, I’d learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.
I’m always game for everything. What people don’t understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.
My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I’m in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.
Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that’s what I started out to do – to make a dent in pop culture.
Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren’t really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul’s Drag Race is years and years of practice.
I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it’s too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.
My life is so much better, it’s so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.
I’m motivated by the laughter, honestly. It’s really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.