Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I really like women who are able to be classy and poised and really well put together when the time is right, but also be complete clowns.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I feel that drag queens impersonate very strong, independent women who inspired us throughout our lives.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

Almost all the Disney villain witches are gay icons.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I hope people realize that drag queens and queer people, we're not just archetypes and stereotypes. We're human beings with a lot to share. And a drag queen doesn't have to just be a clown, she can also be like a cooking TV personality or like a DJ, or a talk-show host. We should be able to infiltrate TV everywhere.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

You don't know that you're not a solo artist or standup comedian or drag cabaret artist until you try it.

Jinkx Monsoon
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 I felt like I understood exactly what was going on, even though I couldn't speak Thai. I didn't understand anything they were saying but I knew exactly what was happening.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I prefer to be gender fluid or non-gendered and I dress in drag almost every day of my life even if I'm not in my full Jinkx Monsoon persona - I'm the kind of person who does not dress like my assigned gender and I wear makeup every day and sometimes wear wigs as a boy.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I very much treat my stage persona of Jinkx as a character I've created. Some drag artists do a look-based glamour act, and when they talk they're mostly just being themselves. In my case it's not Jinkx the drag queen, it's Jerrick Hoffer as Jinkx Monsoon.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

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

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I've had some really great experiences in London and the fans are really loyal and always happy to have us.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I was always ready to submit my life to my career - but I don't think anything could have truly prepared me for the reality of that.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

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

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

Ever since I was a kid I just thought that women had the better outfits, women had the better hair, women got to wear makeup. I just got jealous of what women got to do onstage. You dress up a man and ultimately it's just a different variation on the same kind of suit. There's a whole wide world of what women wear onstage.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

If you have to mask the things you're insecure about, go ahead. Wear four pairs of pantyhose, pad your hips, boost your boobs - whatever it takes to walk out of the house feeling like you own the world. Because there's no reason to waste your life hating something you can change.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic noise, and put them back as if they were written for a singer and a piano.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents are making such a change in the world right now. The more open-minded these kids are being raised, the more hope I have for the future.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

My long-term goal is to play a drag role or a female role in a Broadway production.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

I am a transgender identified person.

Jinkx Monsoon
Jinkx Monsoon

First, it was a big deal for girls to dress more like guys. Then it was a big deal for straight men to be metereosexuals and care about their appearance in the way that a gay man would. Now we have to take it a step further - men should be able to not wear men's clothes if they don't want to.