Hold on to your dream; hold on to your dream - because if it can happen for me, it can happen for you.
— Alaska
There's always been extreme misogyny in the music industry.
Drag is something real. We're so fake that something real actually comes through.
Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail.
I wanted to record an album that moved through the body's chakra energy system.
It was horrible having to watch myself on TV. I think I would have had a much better time if I didn't take it so seriously.
RuPaul has a very playful outlook on the world. He always looks on the bright side.
In my early career I was sort of anti-drag. I said, 'Drag is dumb and boring, and I want to be an effing weirdo and go crazy and rebel.' But now it's like I've come to respect and understand how deep and traditional drag as an art form is.
I think it's good for 'Drag Race' to be moving toward the mainstream. I'm grateful for the move to VH1. I'm glad that one million people watched the first episode of Season 9. Our message is one of love and acceptance and truth and strength and perseverance, and I believe it should reach everyone, near and far.
I think I've become more professional or more marketable. That happened naturally, and I think 'RuPaul's Drag Race' had a lot to do with that.
I'm inspired by Divine certainly, oh, and Britney Spears. I look exactly like her.
Since I was a kid, I've always been skinny and frail framed. I felt powerless as a child, but I always saw so much power in femininity and female sexuality.
I love Little Mix!
After taking a retreat into the woods of the Russian River Valley to write, reflect, and commune with nature and one another, 'Amethyst Journey' was born. The album is a collection of songs that are a combination of our outlook and inspirations - a response to current issues and the state of our planet.
I care deeply about 'Drag Race' and drag. It's my life and it changed my life.
I feel like I want to be in a world and in a community where we can be kinder to one another, because that is never going to hurt... And that should start with myself.
I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.
Let us be kind to one another and be slow to anger.
I think that Life Ball is great because we're celebrating life and also raising awareness. That's all we need to keep doing.
Drag Race' is giving visibility to our community. It's on TV and you can see RuPaul, who is a black, queer, powerful figure who has run this empire for years, and I think that's an amazing thing.
It's like, when RuPaul calls, I answer.
I love working with people I admire.
I feel like the theme song to 'Duck Tales.' 'Life is like a hurricane; it's a duck blur.' That's absolutely what it is.
Realness is something in such short supply; you can't believe anything anyone is saying when you turn on the television, and then during the commercials, they are lying to you there also. You can't believe anything, but when you go see a drag show, something real is happening on stage.
I'm unabashedly obsessed with 'The Golden Girls,' and I have been for many years. And I consider myself to be a priest in the church of 'The Golden Girls.'
I love acting, so doing roles as a man or a woman would be something I'd love to do in the future.
Over the years I've evolved a lot as a performer.
I was always drawn to beautiful women.
I like to take whatever work opportunities I can. I like to work with as many people as I can. I like to show up on time, and I like to have a good time.
Charli XCX is able to write these really catchy, sexy, irreverent, fun hooks.
We believe the Queer community is a model for our global extended family, and together we have the power to create positive change for all of humanity.
If we took the passion and the conviction that the activist trans community has and we combined it with this over-the-top marketable charisma of drag, I feel like if we worked together, we could really effect major social change and world change.
I want make sure I'm showing up for the people I'm really close to and my family, and so finding a balance is really important. But I don't want to quit drag at all. I want to be 90 years old and I want them to prop me up in the doorway and have hot dudes dance around me like Mae West. I really do!
Honey, unlike the song 'Same Parts' by Tatianna, what you see with Alyssa Edwards is always the truth. She is literally a walking catchphrase factory. She is like an oil out of the ground. She is reality tv, and I absolutely love her.
If 'Drag Race' gets an Emmy nomination, I will put on a red glittery face mask over my mouth and I will lip-sync to an Ariana Grande song.
When I'm doing drag, I get to just be a pure channel for it.
My biggest fashion tip for quarantine is, honey, just because we're homebound doesn't mean you can't put on a gown or a nice jacket, do your hair or put on a winged liner, just go for it.
I think 'Drag Race' is a remarkable phenomenon and we won't even be able to see the impact of it until many years later.
I've never been on that side - being reviled by hundreds of thousands of people online. I guess that experience was really terrible, but it's just added another stitch to the tapestry of my character, so I've seen life from both sides now. I've been beloved and reviled.
It's a scary world that we are living in.
I like to say that I am based in Los Angeles, but I mostly reside in airports.
Perhaps I'm just a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' superfan.
I try to keep Alaska fresh by doing laundry and bathing at least once a month.
My last name is like 'Voldemort.' It's the name that cannot be said on television. It adds a sort of mystery to me, and I like that.
I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.
I've lived in a trailer park.
I have a very vague surface level awareness of Metallica.
I'm the Terry Bradshaw of drag. Not Carrie Bradshaw. Terry!
I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.
It's crazy how much time can change things.
