Quotes About Self-expression

Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance.

Every character brings new light to a different part of myself, which is something I love about every role I get to play.

I'm not a bro.

On Broadway, there is no censoring, just self-censorship and doing what makes sense.

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

I have had brown hair and bangs since I was 2. One year I dyed it blonde, which felt so weird.

I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.

I like girls who look like they never brush their hair. That's the key to real style.

I know what it's like to be in college and not have the budget to fully look the way I want to.

You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.

When I started wearing makeup, my parents..... were like, 'You're absolutely not wearing it out of the house.' At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.

I remember wearing a full checkerboard look with checkerboard Vans when I was in elementary school and got bullied so much for it, so it's nice to see it being applauded and enjoyed.

Me, I'm a lazy bum, so I don't shave.

I don't have time to sit down and airbush my lumps and bumps. I don't want to either, because they're all a part of my life and what I've been through and who I am.

I think a lot of burden is put on someone's middle name, but the reality is that you never use it.

Stand-up is no bureaucracy. No one can tell me what to do or not to do.

I think everybody should have the right to do drag if they want to. Even if they look busted!

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

The secret to success is to be yourself.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron Howard, only with a much bigger forehead than either of them.