Quotes from Amanda Lepore

When I was a kid, my mother was hospitalized, she was schizophrenic.

I always felt like a girl. My parents in New Jersey weren't exactly encouraging, but my grandmother was very open-minded. She had lots of costume jewelry and a big chest of purses and things, and she would let me play with all of it - even her makeup and perfume. She just didn't care.

If it were up to me, I'd be using the SPF 100, but I read somewhere that it only protects you up to SPF 50 anyway, and anything higher than that and you're just putting bad stuff onto your skin. So I've always been about staying inside and wearing sunscreen. That's why my skin is like a baby's. Or a 14-year-old girl's.

I enjoy meeting my fans, talking to them, taking photos with them. My fans are the best!

Camp was something I'd never heard of until I started working with Susanne Bartsch - then I heard it all the time.

The club scene was really like a... they really weren't sure if I was a girl or a transsexual. When they found out, it was celebrated instead of 'Ssshh! Don't tell anyone!' That felt really liberating.

Plastic surgery is for when you don't like things... Everything I've got already looks so good.

We need to protect other transsexuals.

I'll eat fish, but only once in a while.

Trump is wack and his wife has terrible wigs.

I love the process of dressing up, and people that dress up, and serving looks and drag queens and club freaks and all of that.

I was always very body-conscious. Especially when I was transitioning, taking hormones and things. I noticed that I would gain weight quicker. So I would exercise and diet, so everything was how I'd like to look.

I based my lips on Jessica Rabbit.

I always loved watching old movies and I loved Marilyn Monroe and all those blondes; that hyper feminine 1950s glamour and the exaggeration of it. Then Jessica Rabbit came along and it was an exaggeration of that look and so I wanted to be even more exaggerated than that.

I'm well-traveled. I've had to get a few passports because I ran out of pages.

Diamonds are a girl's best friend!

I'll use this Midnight Recovery Oil on my face under makeup to get this really dewy look, and then on my body, I like really rich moisturizers. The one I use is Kiehl's Creme de Corps just because it's so thick and lasts.

Well, my dresses are very tight and mostly all made for me - couture, baby.

The club kids want to come out, show off their unique style, have fun and be themselves. I think that's the way it has always been.

I eat healthy.

The bio girls are what kind of inspired me to get into the club scene. I related to them more - like, Dianne Brill was a huge inspiration for me.

I'm on Tinder. I work mostly in gay clubs and I would have really bad relationships because I would meet aspiring models or bartenders or go-go dancers... not always the best choices! So I got on Tinder because one of my friends was on it. It's amazing. I can get more of what I like. I love it.

I feel most glamorous in tight-fitting dresses that hug my curves, and the highest heels.

At my funeral, someone had better touch up my lips and foundation before they close the casket. That's not a beauty tip. It's a formal request.