Noel Fielding Quotes

What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.

Lou Reed was an ideal figure to me. He was bisexual, like me, and seemed to inhabit an ambiguous middle place on the masculine-feminine spectrum.

I'm not a lesbian. I just think that all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

I was always a pretty theatrical kid, a draggy kid... a little sissy. I dressed up in my grandma's heels and clothes... It's always been in me.

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

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.

For many years I thought I was bisexual. And then I would ask myself, 'What is bisexual? Does that even exist?'

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

Ever since I was little, I showed traits of both masculine and feminine energies. Androgyny was never something that I thought about or tried for.

I don't know why I've always been uncomfortable being too feminine. If a dress has too many flowers on it, if I'm giggling too much, I'm like ugh, put some combat boots on. I love masculine women. I think it's because I'm like a fake lesbian, I don't know.

Androgyny refers to a specific way of joining the 'masculine' and 'feminine' aspects of a single human being.

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Lots of my writing can be accurately called lesbian, but I myself am queer and date people of all genders.

David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style.

I was always into very androgynous things. Guys, girls... I'm into androgyny in general.

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

It's not like, 'Okay, today I want to look like a man, or today I want to look like a woman.' I want to look like me. It just so happens that some of the things I like are feminine.

Everybody is in drag.

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

I loved being a man-woman. It's much more interesting than being one or the other.

I am not a drag queen.