Musician

Drag is political.

Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for.

Music is really personal.

I wanted a song my 6-year-old niece could listen to in the car. 'Everyday is Christmas' sounds like a sweet sentiment, but in reality if every day were actually Christmas it would be a candy cane-riddled hellscape from which the human race could never awaken. So we're lucky it is just a lighthearted Christmas tune.

I do believe the children are the future.

The truth is, people who have longevity are able to be aware of their public perception and take it and use it and make it work for them.

I want make sure I'm showing up for the people I'm really close to and my family, and so finding a balance is really important. But I don't want to quit drag at all. I want to be 90 years old and I want them to prop me up in the doorway and have hot dudes dance around me like Mae West. I really do!

My mom was really good at swearing growing up.

I feel like I want to be in a world and in a community where we can be kinder to one another, because that is never going to hurt... And that should start with myself.

If I could send myself a bunch of snake emojis, I probably would.

In show business, there's a lot of time when you're under contract, and you're not allowed to talk about things.

I'm inspired by Divine certainly, oh, and Britney Spears. I look exactly like her.

At the end of the day and at the beginning of the day, I am a man who dresses up like a lady who is from outer space. Not everyone is going to get that. Not everyone is going to be on board with that.

Pittsburgh is an underdog city because it's been in a recession for a really long time, since the steel industry collapsed, so it has this underdog mentality. Yeah, there are a lot of people who are conservative, but I also think they want to rally around their Pittsburgh people.

I think Christmas is a time for the whole family.

It's a scary world that we are living in.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

I think I've become more professional or more marketable. That happened naturally, and I think 'RuPaul's Drag Race' had a lot to do with that.

Straight people love to steal from drag queens. It happens all the time.

Pittsburgh's definitely the city where I learned how to be on a stage, hold a microphone, and interact with an audience. It's where I got my chops as an entertainer and as a performer, so I'm grateful to the queer community there because they are active and vocal and they care about each other.