Quotes from Michelle Visage

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?

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

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

I got involved in the underground world known as ballroom culture, and I used to walk a category called 'face,' and it was a very heavily Latino culture - it's black and Latino - and they used to call me 'cara,' which means face in Spanish, so I started putting 'cara' on everything: hats, jackets.

My humour is spot on.

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

The Brits know how crazy Adele is. Americans have no clue about Adele and how crazy she is!

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 takes an awful lot to offend me.

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 parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give me anything I wanted, within reason. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but being an adopted kid, I think we had a different connotation. My parents tried extra hard, I think.

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

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.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

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 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.

You can't get anything gayer than 'RuPaul's Drag Race!'

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

'Drag Race' is the escape that everybody needs - gay, straight, or otherwise.

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

I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.