107 Quotes by Jinkx Monsoon

I was always ready to submit my life to my career - but I don't think anything could have truly prepared me for the reality of that.

When your career and your passion one in the same there is very little downtime.

Drag queens, our whole art form is about taking inspiration from artists we adore.

With Jinkx Monsoon, I strive to make her pretty and likable and have this bubbly, lovely personality. But then she can also be the most crass, out of the blue, kooky character.

It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.

Ever since I was a kid I just thought that women had the better outfits, women had the better hair, women got to wear makeup. I just got jealous of what women got to do onstage. You dress up a man and ultimately it's just a different variation on the same kind of suit. There's a whole wide world of what women wear onstage.

I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.