Sasha Velour Quotes

I love wearing drag.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

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

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

I want to be a guy, but I want to wear a lot of makeup.

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.

The way I need to look, it's a very personal thing. When I started experimenting, it was to make myself feel happy, to look in the mirror and be satisfied. I never did drag or anything like that. It was always that I wanted to be pretty, to look beautiful, as a girl would want to.

It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

I always knew I wanted to be a woman in men's clothing because I just feel good like that. I feel like I'm taking a different space: I move differently; I'm more at ease.

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.

I was always a pretty theatrical kid, a draggy kid... a little sissy. I dressed up in my grandma's heels and clothes... It's always been in me.

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

You can have a beard and do drag; you can be a woman and do drag. I've met faux queens. I've met kings. Anything that you want can be considered drag in the context.

My sex appeal lies in suits and ties, but my body is femme.

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.

If I was a man, I would be a drag queen. Honestly, I would. I absolutely love it.