I was quite a shy person growing up, and drag was very much a shield for me to perform behind.

It's just making sure that everyone is treated equally. Is that so progressive? I don't think it's progressive, I think it's human. And not just gay people - women's rights, immigrants, people of different ethnic backgrounds.

I always have to have the new gadgets and stuff when they come out. I'm not really interested enough in learning how they work.

I've never given a damn. A seven-foot man who dresses as a woman as a job is not interested in what other people think.

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.

I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.