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“In show business, there's a lot of time when you're under contract, and you're not allowed to talk about things.”

“I was always drawn to beautiful women.”

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

“There's always been extreme misogyny in the music industry.”

“I was really scared that I would never be able to date anyone... because there was a huge stigma against drag. But the drive was so strong to do it that I was like, 'I don't care. If that happens, I'm fine.'”

“I love acting, so doing roles as a man or a woman would be something I'd love to do in the future.”

“Music is really personal.”

“I care about 'RuPaul's Drag Race' a lot. It's given me a career as an artist.”

“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.”

“It's a scary world that we are living in.”

“I get to work a lot of times in nightclubs and large theaters, so I wanted to make music that is fun to perform in those settings. But I also wanted to contrast it with really serious, sincere ballads.”

“I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can't ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the 'Drag Race' world.”

“I wanted to record an album that moved through the body's chakra energy system.”

“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 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.”

“Really, drag is like, 'Oh, I'm putting on women's clothing,' but it's just clothing. The people who assign it as being for women is the culture and society.”

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

“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.”

“The House of Andrews really invented what we know as polished, glamour drag.”

“Perhaps I'm just a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' superfan.”