T. J. Miller Quotes

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

I actually started out on the stage as a singer.

Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.

I love singing and that's kind of my new thing.

But I'm tone deaf - window-shattering tone deaf. I can't sing for the life of me. I can't sing or dance, so no remake of 'Grease' for me!

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

I don't sing. I do everybody a favor and I don't sing.

In my head, I have the most sensational singing voice. I perform concerts to thousands in the shower. The reality is I can hold a tune. The dream is a West End musical one day - no, really!

The Blossoms had gotten so we were working seven days a week, three or four sessions a day, which was literally killing us, physically. With the instruments that the musicians play, they can do that, but not with us using our voices.

Screaming is hard after a while.

In 1996 I was working on a play in New Orleans, and they needed a drag queen. I offered to play the role. That led to guest appearances at bars, which led to regular appearances at bars, which led to hosting. I eventually started working six days a week in bars before moving to N.Y.C.

I'm not a singer.

I used to sing SWV's 'Weak' every day when people would ask me to sing.

The cities that I go to where I can tell that they have a lot of different types of drag, I tell them that they remind me of Brooklyn, and I mean that as the highest compliment in the entire world.

People don't realise how much energy it takes to sing and hit all those high notes - but I always feel like I've done a marathon.

I come from what we call the pre-'Drag Race' drag world where I didn't start doing this with aspirations of being a reality television star, or this going any further than the small smoky bars of Pittsburgh.

I actually do sing sometimes.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

I was exhausted from fake partying. I was like, "I just danced for nine hours. Goodnight, ladies!"

I'm tired again, I've tried again, and now my heart is full. And I just can't explain...so I won't even try to.

I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.