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I like a little Barbra Streisand!
Drag performance is really emotional.
I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.
Absolutely anyone can and must do drag.
I try to write an essay every time I speak.
I'm an only child; I'm a very private person.
I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics.
I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.
There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness.
A superstar doesn't just use the spotlight for themselves.
I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots.
I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules.
I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.
It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.
Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.
Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable.
It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision.
Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance.
Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.
It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people.
The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.
My favorite thing about drag is taking one idea and flipping it on its head entirely.
When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.
I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.
Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements.
For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.
People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression.
For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.
That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.
I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.
There are so many voices that tell people, especially queer people, that they don't have importance and regality.
I think sometimes you have to imagine a fantasy world in which we are represented and visible the way we should be.
I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform.
Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space.
I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.
As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.'
Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.
I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new ways of performing them.
People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show.
I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well.
Even though I present myself at the height of glamour and beauty, part of my truth is being desperate and emotional and unafraid of being unattractive.
People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be a little bit more flexible with them.
'Drag Race' really offered me a platform to have a lot of people listen to what I have to show them, and I want to showcase the whole community I know.
I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest.
I hope that people look at Brooklyn as kind of a drag utopia, because that's what it's been in my experience - all genders and bodies and ages doing drag.
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.
My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.
From the second there was drag, trans people were doing it. And when cis women started being allowed in theaters, then cis women doing drag was part of theater.
Even if I hadn't won 'Drag Race,' even if I'd never been on, I'd still be working my tail off, creating live shows, magazines, videos, anything I possibly could!
Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.