100 Quotes by Sasha Velour

My favorite thing about drag is taking one idea and flipping it on its head entirely.

The truth is, a lot of people go to drag shows, really, for very light entertainment, and I think sometimes maybe we don't even give the audiences enough credit as to what they'd be down for.

The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.

People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show.

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots.

'Drag Race' has made a lot more people into fans of drag, and that's allowed local communities to grow and flourish, but it's up to individual queens to share the spotlight with their communities. I definitely want to be one of the people who does that.

I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new ways of performing them.

To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage.