The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.
RuPaul
It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.
Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.
I dance to the beat of a different drummer.
'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.
Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
I think this life is hard without assistance from others.
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.
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.
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.
My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!
Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.
It's important to find your tribe.
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
La Flavour's 'Mandolay' is a disco classic - I dare you to sit still while listening to it.
I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.
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.
Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.
There are so many sensitive souls; they don't know what to do with their feelings.
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.
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.'
Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She's a Scorpio, like me.
If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.
Life's journey - it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.
I'm ambitious. I work hard.
I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.
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.
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.
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.
Everybody is in drag.
I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.
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.
I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.
Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously.
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.
Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.
I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet.
Life is not to be taken seriously.
My focus is on love and inclusiveness.
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.
I love games. My favorite thing on this planet to do is to play games. And if you don't enjoy games, then you're really missing the point of what this life is.
It's hard to get intimate with an audience.
