Conchita Wurst Quotes

I love wearing drag.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'

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

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.

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

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

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.

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

I was the first man to put on a dress and play it straight. That was something very fresh. Still is.

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.

You get the wig on, you put the lipstick on, you get the big eyelashes on and that's the GC. It's like Paul O'Grady when he does Lily Savage... But when I'm not working, I don't wear a scrap of makeup.

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

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.

When not dressed as Conchita I am a man, and a lazy one at that.

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

I guess historically, drag queens were imitating movie stars and luminaries. It's kind of nice to have a movie star imitating a drag queen.

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.

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.

I am happy being a man in a dress. Some people get confused and think I'm a trans woman, but I'm strict about the difference. What I do is performance, it's staged, it's glamour - it's not real life. But for trans people, being born in the wrong body - there's nothing glamorous or easy about that.