If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.
Drag Race' is a competition.
'Drag Race' is a movement. I'll be forever grateful that I left my legacy.
Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.
What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.
I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.
It's very important that when we have platforms like 'Drag Race,' we use them to really unite forces.
Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable.
We're born naked, and the rest is drag.
I think for many people, they think that being in drag means you want to be a girl. Being trans and doing drag is completely different.
When I wrote 'PG-13,' I had just won 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' all my nightmares had come true, and I was a brat. I was a privileged brat overnight.
'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.
It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.
I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.
If you put drag in front of anything, it inherently makes it more fun. So mashing up films with cult followings with drag queens is a natural fit for a good time.
When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.
I've done drag many, many years, but TV is a huge, powerful thing.
This whole idea of editing, not one time I can tell you, not one time has a producer ever asked me to say something I did not want to say. I will also say this about 'Drag Race' producers: I will stand by the show and the people there because they have changed so many people's lives for the better, and I'm one of them.
Divine was like a 400-pound beached whale. He was one of my favorite leading ladies, I've got to tell you. He was really terrific.
Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.
I'm a drag queen. I want colors that get attention. The world does not need another palette with eight tans and a blue.
I had so much fun working with the queens on 'Drag Race U.K!'
I've always been committed to tuning out the trends of drag and doing styles and fashions and performances that are really true to what I love, to the movie references I've always loved, fashion that speaks to me for whatever reason - no matter what people say.
