RuPaul

“If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?”

“When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.”

“People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That's what gay guys are, right? You're an accessory for my straight life.'...”

“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 com...”

“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...”

“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 da...”

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

“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 l...”

“I'm ambitious. I work hard.”

“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 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 ope...”

“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.”

“Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She's a Scorpio, like me.”

“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'...”

“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.”

“I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.”

“I think this life is hard without assistance from others.”

“Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.”

“There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.”

“I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.”