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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show. "

" For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything. "

" I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules. "

" I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform. "

" There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness. "

" Everyone who passes through 'Drag Race,' and especially the people who are able to have really big careers after the show, has a responsibility to the queer community to do a good job of representing queer people across the board to be kind and loving. "

" Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it's a celebration of all that we've accomplished. "

" Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements. "

" The loss of my mom really inspired me to go to a place with my performances that were emotionally honest, and I found that audiences really responded to that. People need to see heartbreak transformed into beauty. "

" There are so many voices that tell people, especially queer people, that they don't have importance and regality. "

" Drag performance is really emotional. "

" We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of drag queens leading those discussions in marches on the street and even in bars going back to the time of Stonewall and before. "

" I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker. "

" The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side. "

" When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance. "

" That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love. "

" 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'm an only child; I'm a very private person. "

" Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring. "

" I want to follow in RuPaul's footsteps, which is that combination of not just personal stardom but to really transform myself into a producer of drag. That's the way to make a lasting impact on the world of drag and... to make actual differences in the queer community. I think there's no better model for that than RuPaul. "

" I'd say my fashion or beauty tip is to take the thing about you that makes you most distinctive and then exaggerate it. So if you have a little bushy unibrow, make it a dramatic unibrow. If you're balding, go completely bald. "

" 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'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag. "

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

" I've found that embracing the things that make me a little strange and different from other people, and learning to love that, makes me feel beautiful and fashionable every day. "

" Right when I was starting to experiment with drag, my mom was diagnosed with cancer, and during her chemo treatment, she lost all of her hair. And for her, the idea of being a fem with no hair was really difficult. "

" I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots. "

" Identity for Jews like us was shaped by cultural practices and family traditions rather than allegiances of place or language or class, because those things continued to be redefined for us. Drag operates along similar lines. "

" 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. "