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

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" 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. "

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

" I've learned that I am a complete workaholic and that no amount of sleeplessness or exhaustion will keep me from taking on new or ambitious projects. That is both a good quality and a terrible one, I think. "

" Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that. "

" 'Drag Race' has made a lot more people into fans of drag, and that's allowed local communities to grow and flourish, but it's up to individual queens to share the spotlight with their communities. I definitely want to be one of the people who does that. "

" I love that drag is political. For me, one of the reasons I started doing drag was reading about how in the past, drag performers were able to organize the queer community and move us forward. "

" 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. "

" It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion. "

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

" Absolutely anyone can and must do drag. "

" The truth is, a lot of people go to drag shows, really, for very light entertainment, and I think sometimes maybe we don't even give the audiences enough credit as to what they'd be down for. "

" There are no limits to what kind of bodies, which types of people, which genders, or what races can do amazing drag, and I think the audience is clamoring fighting with each other more and more to see drag represented as fully as it possibly can be. "

" A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny. "

" I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking about. "

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

" My favorite diva is Dame Shirley Bassey from the U.K. I just love that every song she sings becomes crazy and intense with feeling. That's how I feel in my daily life. "

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

" 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. "

" Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful. "

" I like a little Barbra Streisand! "

Barbra Streisand

" As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.' "

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

" I want to do something that is not just a pastiche of drag that's come before but is really authentically me. I try to tune out all the drag that's out there and tap into the drag that I was doing when I was a little kid - when I didn't even know the word 'queer' or that gay people were out there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression. "

" At the end of the day, I just love drag so much that it's not enough for me to be a successful drag queen. I want to do right by my drag community as a whole... creating opportunities for other performers, documenting and uplifting amazing drag, and generally just contributing a lot of love and respect to our fabulous little world! "

" To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage. "

" I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula. "

" 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. "