Sharon Needles

Dead things should be buried and not eaten.

— Sharon Needles

Campy films almost create real-life cartoons.

— Sharon Needles

Everyone loves puppets.

— Sharon Needles

Drag culture has always been about excess.

— Sharon Needles

When in doubt, freak 'em out.

— Sharon Needles

A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.

— Sharon Needles

A man in a dress can get away with a lot.

— Sharon Needles

I could talk about myself for hours!

— Sharon Needles

Drag queens don't work well outside. We're designed for spotlights, not sunlight.

— Sharon Needles

In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.

— Sharon Needles

Politics remind me a lot of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' It's real but it isn't.

— Sharon Needles

The most powerful woman I know is my mother, and she doesn't wear any make up at all.

— Sharon Needles

I like work that pushes the barrier of bad taste.

— Sharon Needles

I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

— Sharon Needles

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

— Sharon Needles

I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.

— Sharon Needles

I was raised on GG Allen, Divine, Elvira and Marilyn Manson. I was always more interested in those button pushing, transgressive artists…

— Sharon Needles

I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me…

— Sharon Needles

Growing up in Iowa I could have had it a lot worse. My family was more worried about my education and my…

— Sharon Needles

I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

— Sharon Needles

I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young.…

— Sharon Needles

I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car…

— Sharon Needles

It has always been my aim to live everyday like Halloween by celebrating individuality and creative freedom within a world of horror.

— Sharon Needles

On 'PG-13,' the way I wrote that is that I would get my tracks ahead of time and then I would write…

— Sharon Needles

A lot of people call horror movies 'campy,' and I can certainly see why they think that they are, but being a…

— Sharon Needles

Jason Voorhees was a kid who was picked on at summer camp, and Michael Myers was someone vilified by his own family.…

— Sharon Needles

Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh…

— Sharon Needles

I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling…

— Sharon Needles

Not to be rude to my sisters, but I don't listen to drag music. I listen to everything from punk to Italo…

— Sharon Needles

I was really into the bimbo archetype that filled late 80s-early 90s TV when I was growing up. You know, women circling…

— Sharon Needles

I like money but I love performance art and it goes hand in hand. I'm not the 'Titanic,' I'm 'The Rocky Horror…

— Sharon Needles

Drag can be considered so many dangerous things, which it isn't. But the one thing we're never called is misogynist, which might…

— Sharon Needles

I was talking to the great Armen Ra, the world's most renowned theremin player, and he told me, "I don't trust old…

— Sharon Needles

I function because I am on drugs.

— Sharon Needles

I look spooky but I’m really nice.

— Sharon Needles

I'm the sort of person who wants to wear a wedding dress to a wedding.

— Sharon Needles

Sharon Needles was based on two things: That she was beautiful and that she was stupid.

— Sharon Needles

Monster Mash' is one of those great, throwback Halloween songs.

— Sharon Needles

I find doppelgangers terrifying... can you imagine two of me?! Now that's scary!

— Sharon Needles

I'm obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.

— Sharon Needles