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.

Michelle Visage

Time Yin Wit

It's never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.

Michelle Visage

Strength Your You

I am a biological female. I have two children. I've been married for 16 years. I've never been a man.

Michelle Visage

Years Year Two

Live life and enjoy it. That's the real key to beauty!

Michelle Visage

Life T Real

I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds - singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice.

Michelle Visage

Family Worlds World

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.

Michelle Visage

Wherever Where Use

'RuPaul's Drag Race'... is very little about boys who dress up in girls' clothing: it's very much about grit, integrity, heart, power of perseverance, and the power of love. It's also opening a dialogue up about the persecution and the marginalization of trans people, of queer people, of gender non-binary and gender fluid people.

Michelle Visage

Power Love Art

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.'

Michelle Visage

Women Men Love

I love candles.

Michelle Visage

Love Les I Love

I would create the best 'Big Brother All-Stars!'

Michelle Visage

Would T Stars

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.

Michelle Visage

Men Alone Without

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.

Michelle Visage

Love Victoria Victor

There are different types of people in this world, and I am the type of person who loves to give.

Michelle Visage

Love World Who

You don't have to give up your dreams in order to earn a living - they can go hand in hand.

Michelle Visage

Dreams Your Dreams Your

Listen, there's an expiration date for everything, but I mean, we're not burning out on 'Top Models,' are we? We're not burning out on making things in a 'Runway' room, are we? We're not getting enough 'Got Talent,' right? We'll never run out of talent. So, how could there be a 'Drag' burnout?

Michelle Visage

Way Very UN

I love me a bit of Katie Price.

Michelle Visage

Love Tie T

I'm down for anything. I'll try anything once. I'm a party girl that way!

Michelle Visage

Art Way Try

I love Oxford Circus, so I can do Primarni, and I can do River Island and Topshop and Selfridges.

Michelle Visage

Love Us Tops

Human lives are human lives.

Michelle Visage

Man Lives Man Lives

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.

Michelle Visage

Mom Art World

I was the class weirdo, but I didn't own that weirdo moniker until much later.

Michelle Visage

Weirdo Weird Until

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

Michelle Visage

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.

Michelle Visage

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

Michelle Visage

There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there are so many queens that look at me as an aunt or some sort of confidante, and I can absorb it really well.

Michelle Visage

It takes an awful lot to offend me.

Michelle Visage

I am a competitor, I am a Virgo, and for me, I would never quit anything.

Michelle Visage

Life is the greatest teacher.

Michelle Visage

I'm a heterosexual, married woman with children. I'm a mother who's also a track mom, who cooks and cleans. And I just happen to be an ally for the gay community.

Michelle Visage

I was a theater major, and I remember being in college, and whenever my professor would assign me songs that I hated, I really had a hard time singing them. One time, I even faked sick so I wouldn't have to sing a song.

Michelle Visage

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.

Michelle Visage

I am very much about peace. There is so much turmoil in this world.

Michelle Visage

Even though I present as heterosexual, I've been all over the planet sexually and proud of that and never tried to hide it.

Michelle Visage

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.

Michelle Visage

We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

Michelle Visage

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.

Michelle Visage

For me, my favorite Mariah Carey songs were never the singles, ever. My favorite Mariah song of all time is 'Sent From Up Above' from her first album, or 'Vanishing,' songs no one talks about.

Michelle Visage

You get one go round in this life. Why are you going to settle for second best when you can get everything you want out of it?

Michelle Visage

As an adopted kid, it means a lot when I hear women say, 'I don't want kids.' I have a lot of respect for them.

Michelle Visage

The challenge of 'Drag Race' is always the appearance and the challenge. It's never just the challenge. It's always the combination.

Michelle Visage

We must keep fighting until using the word 'equality' isn't necessary because we will all be living as one.

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.

Michelle Visage

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.

Michelle Visage

I love Marc Jacobs and what Kim Jones is doing for Dior Homme.

Michelle Visage

I help tons of people through their sobriety and getting help, but not because I have lived it but because I love them, care about them, and want them to live their best lives possible. If I can help anyone through that, then that it is my honor.

Michelle Visage

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.

Michelle Visage

I know television. I've done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don't get second chances.

Michelle Visage

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.

Michelle Visage

I don't do CDs. I only do radio. That's the truth.

Michelle Visage

I am a massive bargain hunter, so my list of bargains goes on and on and on.

Michelle Visage

To me, even what the glossies would consider a fashion disaster are still self expression.

Michelle Visage