Michelle Visage

“My humour is spot on.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.'”

“When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.”

“Ru and I have been best friends since, well, let's just say they used the telegraph when we first met. Being able to work with my BFF is a dream come true and even more? To see what he has done for himself, the art of drag and the gay community in general constantly blows me away.”

“My mother was incredible.”

“When I grew up where I grew up, things were very, very different, and nobody had a filter. And that's what brought us together.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“I love candles.”