Sasha Velour Quotes

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

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

Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.

As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

My concepts are never bright ideas; they're never notions I think will sell or be trendy or attract new fans. I don't think that way. All I can do is sing from my life.

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

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

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

One of my life philosophies is that you have a choice to make when you're doing something creative. You can be cheesy... or you can be lame.

My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.

You can only really sing about what you know; at least, I can.

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

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

I'm just playing songs for my friends and for people, and they're just like, 'Wow, this is powerful.' I'm excited. It's also important that, in the record, I move the focus a little bit away from me to more about the things that I think about, communities like drag, gender expression, and friendship-concepts that go beyond me.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

No matter what I put out, no matter what genre - because I feel like I'm going to experiment with everything - I hope people will see that it's true to me, that it's honest, and nobody ever thinks that I'm inauthentic.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

I like embracing kind of normal forms but am always trying to approach them as if no one's ever done that before. As if I'm literally the first person to ever write a book.