Quotes from RuPaul

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 lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

Usually, people who don't have a broad perspective see gay people as servants - as people who are there to make them look good.

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

I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag.

I loved 'Carol.' I thought it was a beautiful film.

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

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

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.

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.' Just because your limited view is that everyone's there to serve you and that you're the only person in the world. It doesn't work that way.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

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

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.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I'm doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn't embraced by anyone else.

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

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.