Carmen Carrera Quotes

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.

The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.

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

I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

I love drag queens and they love me.

It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people.

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

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

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

I love wearing drag.

For me, choosing to perform in drag, because of all the things I enjoy about it, is a political act.

I think that drag, being mainstream, it's such a wonderful thing because even my sister, years ago, they thought it was so taboo and didn't understand it, or maybe they thought, 'Justin, do you want to be a woman?' and I'm like, 'No, Alyssa's my character.'

I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'

I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it's mutual respect for one another.

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

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

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

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

The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.

There is something about the art form and about drag entertainers that is very uplifting.

I agree with Ru that it'll never be mainstream, because mainstream means everybody knows it, everybody loves it, everybody accepts it. That's never gonna happen with drag, but it's definitely become more mainstreamed for people that never knew anything about it, being opened up to it as a form of art.

Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!

Drag culture has always been about excess.

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.