Sasha Velour

A superstar doesn't just use the spotlight for themselves.

— Sasha Velour

I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics.

— Sasha Velour

Absolutely anyone can and must do drag.

— Sasha Velour

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

— Sasha Velour

I'm an only child; I'm a very private person.

— Sasha Velour

I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn.

— Sasha Velour

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

— Sasha Velour

I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker.

— Sasha Velour

Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance.

— Sasha Velour

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

— Sasha Velour

Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.

— Sasha Velour

It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot.

— Sasha Velour

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

— Sasha Velour

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

— Sasha Velour

I think sometimes you have to imagine a fantasy world in which we are represented and visible the way we should be.

— Sasha Velour

Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements.

— Sasha Velour

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and…

— Sasha Velour

Drag has always inspired people to come together to be joyous and fight for what matters. If we can do it through…

— Sasha Velour

I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took…

— Sasha Velour

People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be…

— Sasha Velour

There are no limits to what kind of bodies, which types of people, which genders, or what races can do amazing drag,…

— Sasha Velour

I'd say my fashion or beauty tip is to take the thing about you that makes you most distinctive and then exaggerate…

— Sasha Velour

I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates…

— Sasha Velour

I hope we see more avenues for representation. More TV shows and films starring queer people, especially QPOC and nonbinary folks, more…

— Sasha Velour

The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to…

— Sasha Velour

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had…

— Sasha Velour

I want to follow in RuPaul's footsteps, which is that combination of not just personal stardom but to really transform myself into…

— Sasha Velour

A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end…

— Sasha Velour

At the end of the day, I just love drag so much that it's not enough for me to be a successful…

— Sasha Velour

I want to do something that is not just a pastiche of drag that's come before but is really authentically me. I…

— Sasha Velour

Purple has always been my favorite color... but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren't really…

— Sasha Velour

I've always tried to twist the ideas of beauty that are maybe considered to be ugly by the mainstream. I was already…

— Sasha Velour

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

— Sasha Velour

Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable.

— Sasha Velour

Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.

— Sasha Velour

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

— Sasha Velour

I try to write an essay every time I speak.

— Sasha Velour

Unfortunately, this world is not an easy place.

— Sasha Velour

I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules.

— Sasha Velour

Drag performance is really emotional.

— Sasha Velour