Quotes from Chi Chi DeVayne

I did a Christmas tour and I sang on that and the response I got was people want to hear more of Chi Chi's voice.

That has nothing to do with how far you can go. Never be ashamed of how you walk, talk because that is going to be the key to your success.

I've always wanted to do Broadway.

I love to get on stage and burn it up.

I'm Chi Chi, and everybody knows when I get on stage, it's magical.

I've been singing since I was like 7 years old in the choir at church, so I do have a little bit of a voice.

In high school, I was in the band and I was a percussionist, but I always used to watch the girls dance. I used to want to be on the team so bad.

A lot of the stuff I was on 'All Stars,' it wasn't new, it was all stuff out of my closet and stuff that I made myself.

When I'm pressured, I have to click into survival mode.

I wanted to prove to people that I can make great costumes.

I was doing drag as just a hobby on the weekends to let my hair down. I never thought of drag was going to be my career and what I would be doing for the rest of my life. Once I made it onto 'Drag Race,' I'm like, 'Oh, OK - this is my calling.

I want to do music, film, acting - all of that kind of stuff.

Like I said, I've always been a lazy drag queen. I'm actually a boy and I hate dressing up. I don't hate it. It's fun, but it's not something that I like doing all the time.

I'm a performing queen.

I wish that I had the guts to stand up for gay rights.

I want to show the fans that I do have a voice, as well as I'm a great rapper.

People loved me because I'm a great person to be friends with, but when it comes down to drag, I didn't want them to think badly of me.

Once we're done filming, we're all buddy buddy, laying all over each other and grooming each other and just helping each other out. They never show any of that kind of stuff. You can't do RuPaul's Best Friends Race!

In the beginning, believe it or not, me and Acid Betty were good friends.

One of the most famous poems I know by Maya Angelou is not 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' it's the other one, 'Still I Rise.'

I don't know, maybe I have a sixth sense or something.

Cardi B or Tiffany Haddish from 'Girl's Trip,' I think I could play those two.

My drag is that real Southern dragged-out style of drag.

Well, it's hard for me to call anybody my 'friend' because when I say 'friend,' like, I'm from the South and friends have grown up with you, went to school with you, stuff like that.