Top 60 Alaska Quotes

Drag is political.

If I could send myself a bunch of snake emojis, I probably would.

I love drag so much and it’s a huge part of who I am but there’s also another side that hasn’t really gotten out into the music and I’m excited to show that.

My biggest fashion tip for quarantine is, honey, just because we’re homebound doesn’t mean you can’t put on a gown or a nice jacket, do your hair or put on a winged liner, just go for it.

Why sleep when we can do drag?

I’m the Terry Bradshaw of drag. Not Carrie Bradshaw. Terry!

I do believe the children are the future.

I think it’s good for ‘Drag Race’ to be moving toward the mainstream. I’m grateful for the move to VH1. I’m glad that one million people watched the first episode of Season 9. Our message is one of love and acceptance and truth and strength and perseverance, and I believe it should reach everyone, near and far.

Personally, I like drag that’s a little rough around the edges, drag you can run around in it, drag you can get in the Uber without worrying about!

Charli XCX is able to write these really catchy, sexy, irreverent, fun hooks.

The House of Andrews really invented what we know as polished, glamour drag.

I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can’t ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the ‘Drag Race’ world.

There’s still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

I like to say that I am based in Los Angeles, but I mostly reside in airports.

Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail.

I think that my attitude about myself is something that I’ve been trying to work on – trying to be more positive and just believing in myself more.

Well, I love Britney Spears, and I condider myself to be Britney Spears.

I was like, 18 and it was in West Virginia because I was allowed to get into the clubs in West Virginia, not Pennsylvania where I was growing up. And we went in and there was a drag queen on stage and she was huge and beautiful, but she was lip syncing to a song. I was legitimately stunned.

You have to take the tragic and turn it to magic.

I’ve lived in a trailer park.

The thing about ‘Drag Race’ now is that you don’t really know what’s going to happen when it gets to the end of the season.

I’ve never been on that side – being reviled by hundreds of thousands of people online. I guess that experience was really terrible, but it’s just added another stitch to the tapestry of my character, so I’ve seen life from both sides now. I’ve been beloved and reviled.

Realness is something in such short supply; you can’t believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then during the commercials, they are lying to you there also. You can’t believe anything, but when you go see a drag show, something real is happening on stage.

It’s a scary world that we are living in.

Music is really personal.

I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that’s it.

In my early career I was sort of anti-drag. I said, ‘Drag is dumb and boring, and I want to be an effing weirdo and go crazy and rebel.’ But now it’s like I’ve come to respect and understand how deep and traditional drag as an art form is.

There’s always been extreme misogyny in the music industry.

Over the years I’ve evolved a lot as a performer.

I feel like I want to be in a world and in a community where we can be kinder to one another, because that is never going to hurt… And that should start with myself.

RuPaul is someone who I really look up to because he’s very much a renaissance man.

Hold on to your dream; hold on to your dream – because if it can happen for me, it can happen for you.

When I’m doing drag, I get to just be a pure channel for it.

I love ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians.’

In show business, there’s a lot of time when you’re under contract, and you’re not allowed to talk about things.

If people are laughing at you, you might as well be in on the joke.

My last name is like ‘Voldemort.’ It’s the name that cannot be said on television. It adds a sort of mystery to me, and I like that.

I’m inspired by Divine certainly, oh, and Britney Spears. I look exactly like her.

Since I was a kid, I’ve always been skinny and frail framed. I felt powerless as a child, but I always saw so much power in femininity and female sexuality.

I’ll be in, like, Starbucks or something and I’ll say my order and someone will snap their head around and go, ‘Whaat, Alaska?! Hieeee!’ I find it nice because I can be alone in a strange city where I don’t know where I am, and then if a fan runs into me I feel like I am among friends and family.

Working out grounds you in your body and in the moment so if I’m ever feeling fuzzy headed a workout always helps check in with the moment.

I want to make the world a better place, and I think we can all work together to do that.

We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for all of humanity.

I think I’ve become more professional or more marketable. That happened naturally, and I think ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ had a lot to do with that.

Pittsburgh’s definitely the city where I learned how to be on a stage, hold a microphone, and interact with an audience. It’s where I got my chops as an entertainer and as a performer, so I’m grateful to the queer community there because they are active and vocal and they care about each other.

Drag is something real. We’re so fake that something real actually comes through.

Drag Race’ is giving visibility to our community. It’s on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that’s an amazing thing.

It was horrible having to watch myself on TV. I think I would have had a much better time if I didn’t take it so seriously.

I’m a giant person. I can’t go and buy women’s shoes in a shoe store. I don’t even go in the shoe section because it just breaks my heart because the shoes are so beautiful, but they don’t fit me.

My mom knew that I was gay. So she just came up to me in the kitchen one night, and she said, ‘Justin, are you a homosexual?’ And I said, ‘Yes,’ and that was that. She took all the steps, she went to talk to a family counselor beforehand to see how she should bring it up, and now my mom’s my biggest fan.

I was always drawn to beautiful women.

After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another, ‘Amethyst Journey’ was born. The album is a collection of songs that are a combination of our outlook and inspirations – a response to current issues and the state of our planet.

I’m from Erie, Pennsylvania. We’re just naturally really nice, I think. In a show like ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ that isn’t always good.

I think Christmas is a time for the whole family.

Pittsburgh is an underdog city because it’s been in a recession for a really long time, since the steel industry collapsed, so it has this underdog mentality. Yeah, there are a lot of people who are conservative, but I also think they want to rally around their Pittsburgh people.

I feel like the theme song to ‘Duck Tales.’ ‘Life is like a hurricane; it’s a duck blur.’ That’s absolutely what it is.

I think ‘Drag Race’ is a remarkable phenomenon and we won’t even be able to see the impact of it until many years later.

I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings.

I wanted to record an album that moved through the body’s chakra energy system.

So pride is a time for us to say we’re here, we’re visible, we’re strong, we’re able to organise and we’re able to activate and work together as a community to make change. That’s what pride’s about for me. And it’s really fun too!