A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.
I can't speak for all queens, but Sharon Needles is definitely a different entity from me as Aaron Coady.
I like work that pushes the barrier of bad taste.
I'm the sort of person who wants to wear a wedding dress to a wedding.
Growing up in Iowa I could have had it a lot worse. My family was more worried about my education and my health than the fact that I wore my sister's dresses.
It seems I am more beloved on a reality show from an extended cable network than I am in social circles in my own city.
I represent a kind of underground, punk side of drag.
It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.
When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.
Call Me On The Ouija Board' is homage not just to horror movies involving children, but my favorites as a child.
Before my time on 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' Halloween was my favorite day of the year since I was a little kid. It's the day we worship the macabre and live vicariously through the costumes that we wear.
When I wrote 'PG-13,' I had just won 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' all my nightmares had come true, and I was a brat. I was a privileged brat overnight.
I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.
Dead things should be buried and not eaten.
I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.
Drag can be considered so many dangerous things, which it isn't. But the one thing we're never called is misogynist, which might be the only thing that we truly are. Because no woman looks like this. You have so many real biological everyday women say: 'Oh I wish I would look like you.' They would look ridiculous if they looked like us.
Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.
Any younger person - let's say if you're over the age of 30, Pride is a great excuse to go day-drinking. But no one forgets their first Pride and how much they felt that they were included and that the future was bright.
I could talk about myself for hours!
A lot of people call horror movies 'campy,' and I can certainly see why they think that they are, but being a product of the 80s, I didn't notice that they were campy - I came from a campy generation. I mean, Ronald Reagan is campy. But I don't think they're campy.
