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We have such an amazing drag community, and I don't think people fully realize it about Seattle.
Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.
I don't have anything to prove because I've already validated myself and my work speaks for itself.
Before, gay portrayals in the media were so limiting, like a caricature of a homo. A parody almost.
It's very important that when we have platforms like 'Drag Race,' we use them to really unite forces.
When your hobby becomes a full-time job that pays you and the people around you, it's not fun anymore.
As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'
Everybody deserves to showcase their different talents and there's always somebody new you can tap into.
I feel that drag queens impersonate very strong, independent women who inspired us throughout our lives.
I was able to save up a lot of money over the years of working hard so that I can buy myself cute shoes.
I love Halloween. I mean, yes, I consider every day to be Halloween, but it's a very special day for me.
We should not be assuming anything for anyone else's gender, because gender is defined by the individual.
You don't know that you're not a solo artist or standup comedian or drag cabaret artist until you try it.
I can't speak for all queens, but Sharon Needles is definitely a different entity from me as Aaron Coady.
I've had some really great experiences in London and the fans are really loyal and always happy to have us.
Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.
PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.
My motto is water off a duck's back. Meaning: don't let negativity weigh you down, perpetuate positive thinking.
What I love that has happened for years now with 'Drag Race' is the queens can go on to have any kind of career.
Love is a universal, attractive element. And other than death, love is the one thing that binds all of humanity.
Call Me On The Ouija Board' is homage not just to horror movies involving children, but my favorites as a child.
I really don't consider myself a man or a woman. I just kind of float in between and that's how I've always felt.
I consider myself a very passionate person, so as much fun as I like to have, I'm also the biggest asshole I know.
I'm kind of a hokey-jokey, campy idiot in black lipstick, but when it comes to my music, I take it very seriously.
When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.
There's so much stuff in America that is very shameful. It's stuff that I can't endorse, but I still perform there.
I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.
I feel like when you call us drag queens, it stereotypes us. It puts us as labels and I feel like we are performers.
I had no idea I would be able to have a career in drag that's lasted this long, at the level that I get to do it at.
I go into the kitchen and cook with music on or go for walks around my neighborhood when I feel the most overwhelmed.
Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.
It seems I am more beloved on a reality show from an extended cable network than I am in social circles in my own city.
I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.
I'm not the hugest fan of pop music and electro music, which is why 'The Inevitable Album' was entirely live instruments.
Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me.
Who knows where I would be if I hadn't gone on Drag Race and gotten that kick in the rear to step it up to the next level?
There are a lot of BeBe Zahara Benets in Africa. It's important that our continent can move forward, and respect diversity.
I might not the best seamstress, I might not know how to sew, but I know how to make a garment look like a million dollars.
I did 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' two years in a row in the winter in Seattle, and that was an amazing experience both times.
What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.
I don't get intimidated, you know. Because I feel like when you get intimidated, you become nervous, and then you turn to fear.
There's a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I've always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.
I am only really attracted to people who are very open-minded and embrace and celebrate people who live outside the gender norm.
Sometimes I feel like there's a little bit of woman deep down inside of me, that when I put on the drag, she's able to come out.
I think that the attraction to camp is its irreverence, it's strange, it in no way reflects reality while using real characters.
I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.
I'm going to release whatever feels right and what I think is going to spread a good message about my artistry and what I believe.
My house is a mixture of mid-century 'Brady Bunch' and the Addams family, so it's not uncommon to find vials of blood in my house.
I was always ready to submit my life to my career - but I don't think anything could have truly prepared me for the reality of that.
Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'