Conchita Wurst Quotes

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.

Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it.

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 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.'

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've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

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

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

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

I think that drag, being mainstream, it's such a wonderful thing because even my sister, years ago, they thought it was so taboo and didn't understand it, or maybe they thought, 'Justin, do you want to be a woman?' and I'm like, 'No, Alyssa's my character.'

Sometimes I feel like there's a little bit of woman deep down inside of me, that when I put on the drag, she's able to come out.

I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it's mutual respect for one another.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

Drag performance is really emotional.

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

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

My drag name was Revvlon.

I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.

Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.