Sasha Velour Quotes

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

A playwright can drop a little acid in the water and it washes away a lot of rust.

I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.

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

Drag will always find a way to be weird.

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.

Drag is a gift.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

I'm just super into redefining things.

There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.

Sometimes I've found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don't know if it's important, but it's something. It's entertainment.

I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I can rap in a London accent, make weird faces, wear spandex, wigs, and black lipstick. I can be more creative than the average male rapper.

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.

Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.