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.
— Michelle Visage
I'm the parent of a queer child, and for my kid to know that they can always come to me and I'm going to love them no matter what is the biggest gift.
'Drag Race' is the escape that everybody needs - gay, straight, or otherwise.
I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan of drag, it's the art form that excites me and the longform presentation that they do. So it's super exciting to be with them, doing what they love to do and doing it well.
It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.
It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.
I never felt welcome in the heteronormative groups.
Selfridges - we just look; we don't shop!
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.
'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.
The Brits know how crazy Adele is. Americans have no clue about Adele and how crazy she is!
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 am very much about peace. There is so much turmoil in this world.
To me, even what the glossies would consider a fashion disaster are still self expression.
I am a massive bargain hunter, so my list of bargains goes on and on and on.
As a mom to biological children and adopted gay children all around the world, nothing gives my heart strings a tug as much as seeing a parent stand by their queer/gay/trans child with beaming pride.
Even though I present as heterosexual, I've been all over the planet sexually and proud of that and never tried to hide it.
I'm a real theatre kid - that's all I ever wanted to be.
Growing up in the '80s in central New Jersey as a weird kid with a blue mohawk listening to the Sex Pistols and dressing really funky, I was bullied pretty badly. It was every single day in elementary school and kept going into middle school, too. I felt totally alone, without a single person there for me.
The challenge of 'Drag Race' is always the appearance and the challenge. It's never just the challenge. It's always the combination.
Any time you get to see a bunch of drag queens performing music and performing songs and being idiots, I'm in.
The minute I enter my house or a hotel room on the road, wherever I am, the first thing I do is light a candle; that's my favourite thing.
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.
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 love Oxford Circus, so I can do Primarni, and I can do River Island and Topshop and Selfridges.
Growing up in New Jersey, teen clubs were your life. I'm not kidding! That was it. I was literally tied up five days a week with teen clubs; my parents would drop me off. Like, I didn't even drive.
I would create the best 'Big Brother All-Stars!'
I had a dialect coach from the Royal Shakespeare Company who was from Sheffield.
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'm down for anything. I'll try anything once. I'm a party girl that way!
I think Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, and Victoria Beckham all have an aesthetic that I admire, but I also love extreme risk takers like Miley Cyrus and Rihanna.
I don't do CDs. I only do radio. That's the truth.
I do drag. Just because my drag is not the drag of Creme Fatale or Holy McGrail doesn't mean it's less drag. I perform live; I just sing with dancers. It's drag on a different level.
I know television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don't get second chances.
I am a competitor, I am a Virgo, and for me, I would never quit anything.
To see queer people keeping each other down makes me so sad because I've been around for a long time - I've seen the people who came before us fight for what we have right now, and they did not fight like that for us to go backwards.
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.
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.
I love candles.
I was the class weirdo, but I didn't own that weirdo moniker until much later.
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.
I agree with Ru that it'll never be mainstream, because mainstream means everybody knows it, everybody loves it, everybody accepts it. That's never gonna happen with drag, but it's definitely become more mainstreamed for people that never knew anything about it, being opened up to it as a form of art.
My humour is spot on.
I hate - I hate - queens coming on and doing boy drag on 'RuPaul's Drag Race' because I feel like it's not edgy; it's not different. You can see it anywhere.
Human lives are human lives.
I'm a huge mediator.
I love me a bit of Katie Price.
Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.
We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.
We love trans women; all of us know that drag wouldn't be an art form without trans women. I know that, RuPaul knows that, everybody in the gay community knows that. Trans women have always been a part of and the face of drag. And I can guarantee trans women will always be a part of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'
