Sasha Velour Quotes

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

I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

My drag name was Revvlon.

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'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

If I could pick a dream job it would be sitting in a room with a fabulous drag queen chatting about 'RuPaul's Drag Race.'

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

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

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

The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

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

I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting.

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

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.'

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I'm into emulation, not imitation.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

I love wearing drag.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.