My biggest style inspirations come from the ’90s. I’m really inspired by TLC, Janet Jackson, and designers like Jeremy Scott. I’m hugely inspired by Club Kids from New York back in the ’90s. I’m inspired by the drag queen scene. Combat boots and the torn off jeans and a baggy shirt – I love that look.
Get picked for an Ashes Test at Lord’s and you know you’re going to meet the Queen. She arrived before the start of our game against Australia in 2013 and we lined up for inspection like the household cavalry on Horse Guards Parade.
In traditional ‘Swan Lakes,’ it’s Prince Siegfried’s 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is on hand.
In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
They love putting me in the ‘indie queen’ box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don’t have anymore.
Solitary pursuits like playing video games and skateboarding can’t compete with the thrill of mobbing a teammate as he scores the winning run – nor do they end with a postgame trip to Dairy Queen.
I’m a bit like the Queen in that I don’t carry much cash.
The fact is, Charles and Diana’s marriage was a train smash in many ways, and, as Camilla will one day be Queen, it’s important for the public to understand she’s not some terrible woman.
I’ve never had to pretend to be having sex with somebody. I’m like the queen of the foreplay dissolve.
It’s been a good ride. Queen is the train that never stops, I think.
Bob was the king, and as his queen I must carry on.
Queen Latifah once came up to me and said ‘Bebot’ was her favorite song. She said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about, but it feels dope!’
I might not earn loads, but I can proudly say that I’ve travelled the world, met the Queen and flown with the Red Arrows.
Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they’re portrayed in films like ‘Dressed to Kill’ and ‘Silence of the Lambs.’
My mum has an MBE and the Queen actually came to my mum and dad’s hotel for lunch with the Prince back in the 1980s.
Mary Queen of Scots is the most ‘normal’ girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.
I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He’d take me in his car. I’d hear Carlos Santana. I’d hear Queen. I’d hear all these Turkish people, like, bands that he grew up listening to. He was in a band as well.
When Lady Diana Spencer first visited Balmoral, aged 19, she charmed all the Royals and the Queen especially.
The Queen is a true professional and calmly pinned my MBE on.
Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions.
I frequently dream of having tea with the Queen.
My dad’s name is ‘The Drag Queen.’
I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.
Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the ’70s she’d be the queen of Southern rock.
I hope people realize that drag queens and queer people, we’re not just archetypes and stereotypes. We’re human beings with a lot to share. And a drag queen doesn’t have to just be a clown, she can also be like a cooking TV personality or like a DJ, or a talk-show host. We should be able to infiltrate TV everywhere.
If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.
Queen Latifah has been a huge part of my career. She has been a huge, huge part of my career since the very beginning.
Someone said to me a long time ago, ‘You’re a drag queen,’ and at the time I was a little like… hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.
I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone – I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary – I think it’s the only way to travel from New York.
My wife and I make the bed every morning, but it’s a queen size bed today, as opposed to a rack, you know, a small single bed, which I had in basic SEAL training.
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.
I like to dribble to Queen’s ‘Another One Bites the Dust.’
A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that’s a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there’s a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.
I don’t think I knew Ru was a drag queen when I would see her in ‘The Brady Bunch Movie.’
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.
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth – she’s Elizabeth the Second. There’s only one Imelda.
I sound like a chain-smoking drag queen after a hard night of singing ‘Tie a Yellow Ribbon’.
I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before ‘Queen,’ but now things have changed a lot.
I went into ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ saying, ‘I’ll never cry.’ Because they make fun of every queen that cries on the show. And I did cry, and I did scream, and I did have doubt, and I did have great, victorious moments.
You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.
Money is the sovereign queen of all delights – for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.
Lot’s of marriages don’t last as long as Queen have been together.
Medieval kings left the job of kindness to their queens. If the queen begged for someone not to be beheaded, the king could show mercy without losing face.
As an Englishwoman, you pick up a lot through osmosis. I’ve been watching the Queen all my life. But, yes, I did watch news footage and was able to pick a couple of little tics. For instance, she plays with her hands a lot and has a certain way of holding them on her lap when she’s in public.
I think, Queen Victoria’s diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.
I grew up such a horror fan, it’s kinda cool being named ‘Scream Queen.’ I like that.
Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.
The Queen’s wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
Raven was the first drag queen I had ever seen. Her and Detox in L.A. when I was baby. I respect Raven and Detox so much.
I went to Queen’s University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
There are projects I’ve done, such as ‘Queen,’ where I played Halle Berry and Danny Glover’s son, where I’m so extremely proud of the work that I did that I will sit down and watch that any time.
‘MaerskKendal’ is a rarity with its British flag, the ‘LONDON’ home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.
I worked in IT, which is all boys, and I was the queen of the boys. That’s what I did. I was the one who knew where the paper towels were, which was very important. And I organized happy hours and things like that.
Edge was part of my fascination with KISS and Cheap Trick and Queen, mixed with wrestling.
I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song ‘Radio Gaga.’
If you’re let go from Celtic, the club you support, and go to Queen’s Park, people think it’s a disaster. I don’t think I cried, but I was very upset. As a young boy, your dream has been taken away. But I had good people around me, and it was probably the best thing that happened.
To the fashion world, a man in a dress will always be camp. But in the drag world, you have specific genres. So for me, for instance, I’m most categorized as a ‘look queen.’
We used to rehearse in unused lecture halls at Imperial and recorded our first album, ‘Queen,’ in 1971 while I was studying for my biology finals – it is amazing I passed.
Elvis may be the King of Rock and Roll, but I am the Queen.
