100 Quotes by Sasha Velour

I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula.

It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.

The inspiration of my drag is the history of drag, the long tradition of drag queens being at the forefront of queer activism. That informs my drag style, and in a sense, that is the direction we need to go in the future.

There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness.

I want to do something that is not just a pastiche of drag that's come before but is really authentically me. I try to tune out all the drag that's out there and tap into the drag that I was doing when I was a little kid - when I didn't even know the word 'queer' or that gay people were out there.