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I want to keep changing the world. It's possible. The black gay lead is ready. It's time.

I do 'sissy with a heart of gold' really well.

I don't in any way disparage any time I've had in the trenches because it really has made me the artist I am today.

Broadway! Broad-way! I don't aspire to the middle. I aspire to the tip-tip-top of it all.

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

I want to do work that means something to me so that when I go to work at the theater eight times a week, I want to be there.

I've always been passionate about fashion.

I was so beat down as a young person - being black, being gay, being unable to assimilate because I could never, ever pull off being butch.

I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.

I had something nobody else could do - I sang in a way that separated me - and, when you're trying to get noticed, you play your trump card.

People don't see me in traditional roles; I'm not getting cast in the revival of 'Company' as Bobby.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.

When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.

How can you be of service to something other than your own ego and bank account, in a business that's inherently narcissistic?

I wouldn't be caught dead in red.

Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different things in show business.

For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.

I'm in love with what a high heel does to a leg: how it makes a woman or a man feel. It's empowering.

I would love to be able to turn my recording career into something that is substantial, and where I can go and tour with an orchestra.