Challenge Norms Quotes

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.

I think it's part of the responsibility of an artist to shock, to upset, to make people think differently, and to surprise people. And that's where the good humor is, if there's a surprise and there's something unexpected. Something that's not normal, not in the realm of general living expectations.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

Change the sound. Make people rethink what they're doing. That's what I really wanna do.

Don't follow leaders.

It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision.

Some of those songs, you really have to bite them. You challenge yourself, you challenge the audience, you do something different. People weren't expecting it.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.