Kristian Nairn Quotes

I love wearing drag.

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

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.

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 did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, all of these artists that we do love - you see so much of what we do, the personas, makeup, hair, fashion - like, all of is now incorporated in pop culture, and a lot of it has to do with drag, because we over-exaggerate everything, right? We take it out to the next level.

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.

I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

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.

I love drag queens and they love me.

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

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.

I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

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

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

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.

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

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.

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.

Drag, in my view these days, has become the thing it used to make fun of - which is Jennifer Lopez. Now we all want to be her. We have stylists; we have special photographers.

People are slowly realizing that they're looking at drag all the time. 'Mrs. Doubtfire.' 'Real Housewives.' Peewee Herman. Don't let calling it drag make you uncomfortable.