RuPaul sat down for an interview with our friends at Next magazine (no relation) and got real about being nominated for his first Emmy award.

"My first thought was about Logo and how happy I was for Logo," says the Queen of All Media. "Logo has been around for a long time now and it really hasn’t gotten the recognition, I think, it deserves. So my first thought was how happy I was for Logo. But my whole life, my whole career, I have always worked off the grid, outside the status quo. So for the status quo to recognize the work I’ve done I’m like, 'Ummm—that’s great but that’s really not the reason I do what I do.'"

He confesses if he was in it for any external praise, "I would have been really, really disappointed many years ago."

"If I was looking for validation or recognition from the industry, it would have broken me," Ru added. "So, I love that they have recognized it but I am more excited for the people I work with. For their work to be recognized."

Catch Ru in an all-new season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, premiering August 25 at 8/7c on Logo.