Jinkx Monsoon

I always say better busy than dead.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I started drag at 15 years old.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Drag is very regional.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I call myself a gorgeous anachronism.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I am a transgender identified person.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I mean, drag is a universal language.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I've always been into the music of the 1920s and 1930s.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I want to be a role model and an advocate for social change.

— Jinkx Monsoon

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

— Jinkx Monsoon

If I'm in drag, I'm playing Jinkx in some way.

— Jinkx Monsoon

To be completely honest, I find New York to be too much city for me.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I want a computer that's bigger than my TV at home!

— Jinkx Monsoon

I find a lot of joy from legitimate theater. But Jinkx is my passion project.

— Jinkx Monsoon

The more you embrace the weird crazy things about you, the more you find your tribe.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I don't think I knew Ru was a drag queen when I would see her in 'The Brady Bunch Movie.'

— Jinkx Monsoon

What I love that has happened for years now with 'Drag Race' is the queens can go on to have any kind…

— Jinkx Monsoon

As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'

— Jinkx Monsoon

There's an old guard of drag, like the queens who got as big as they could possibly get before there was a…

— Jinkx Monsoon

It's silly, but 'You Really Got a Hold on Me' has been a favorite song of mine for a long time.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I basically can't go to any gay bar in America without getting mobbed, which is fun and tiring.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Growing up as a gay boy during the holidays, there's the things you want to ask for, and then the things you…

— Jinkx Monsoon

Nowadays, 'Drag Race' shows how fantastic and amazing drag queens can be, so audiences won't sit through a boring show anymore. You…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I only do numbers/acts that excite me, or I connect to personally. I never phone it in. It's about finding the balance…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted…

— Jinkx Monsoon

Coming out as nonbinary was a response to a lot of criticism I got when it leaked that I'd be playing a…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I've always preferred drag roles, because typically I get better costumes and I've always felt more connected with the female characters in…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I watched 'Drag Race Thailand' without any subtitles or voiceovers or anything; I don't speak Thai but I do speak drag, so…

— Jinkx Monsoon

Drag has come a long way and people are respecting it, and giving drag queens and other people who defy gender norms…

— Jinkx Monsoon

My first drag role was the character Widow Simone in the ballet 'La Fille Mal Gardee.' She's a crazy social climbing woman…

— Jinkx Monsoon

Ever since I was a kid I just thought that women had the better outfits, women had the better hair, women got…

— Jinkx Monsoon

When I was a child, I dreamt of being a big star. I truly believed that I would be world famous someday,…

— Jinkx Monsoon

If you hide, you won't find the eccentric people who will be your best friends.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I want people to see that you don't have to be catty and mean to be a superstar.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I used to watch 'Death Becomes Her,' and I knew I wanted to become Meryl Streep.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Jinkx is a single mother and I've seen so many strong Jewish women.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Almost all the Disney villain witches are gay icons.

— Jinkx Monsoon

I've been dressing like a girl my entire life!

— Jinkx Monsoon

Gwyneth Paltrow - she always looks like she's about to cry.

— Jinkx Monsoon

You can't believe that you're the best at everything.

— Jinkx Monsoon

Sarah Silverman has always been a huge influence on my comedy.

— Jinkx Monsoon