Quotes from Alaska

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.

RuPaul is someone who I really look up to because he's very much a renaissance man.

I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings.

You can't control how you come across and if you try to then you come across looking like an idiot anyway.

There's still an immense amount of discrimination that happens against trans people.

If I could send myself a bunch of snake emojis, I probably would.

RuPaul has a very playful outlook on the world. He always looks on the bright side.

Pittsburgh is an underdog city because it's been in a recession for a really long time, since the steel industry collapsed, so it has this underdog mentality. Yeah, there are a lot of people who are conservative, but I also think they want to rally around their Pittsburgh people.

You have to take the tragic and turn it to magic.

I've lived in a trailer park.

It's always been that I feel more masculine in drag than I do out of it. I only get called 'ma'am' out of drag and I only get called 'sir' in drag.

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.

Charli XCX is able to write these really catchy, sexy, irreverent, fun hooks.

My mom knew that I was gay. So she just came up to me in the kitchen one night, and she said, 'Justin, are you a homosexual?' And I said, 'Yes,' and that was that. She took all the steps, she went to talk to a family counselor beforehand to see how she should bring it up, and now my mom's my biggest fan.

I've certainly had to find a balance for myself and I have to now schedule months where I say, 'OK, I'm not going to travel during this month.'

Why sleep when we can do drag?

Let us be kind to one another and be slow to anger.

I love 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians.'

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.

Working out grounds you in your body and in the moment so if I'm ever feeling fuzzy headed a workout always helps check in with the moment.

Hold on to your dream; hold on to your dream - because if it can happen for me, it can happen for you.

The truth is, people who have longevity are able to be aware of their public perception and take it and use it and make it work for them.

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 wanted a song my 6-year-old niece could listen to in the car. 'Everyday is Christmas' sounds like a sweet sentiment, but in reality if every day were actually Christmas it would be a candy cane-riddled hellscape from which the human race could never awaken. So we're lucky it is just a lighthearted Christmas tune.