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“I find a lot of joy from legitimate theater. But Jinkx is my passion project.”
“Gwyneth Paltrow - she always looks like she's about to cry.”
“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.”
“I've always preferred drag roles, because typically I get better costumes and I've always felt more connected with the female characters in my favorite shows than most of the male characters.”
“I really don't consider myself a man or a woman. I just kind of float in between and that's how I've always felt.”
“I basically can't go to any gay bar in America without getting mobbed, which is fun and tiring.”
“Nowadays, 'Drag Race' shows how fantastic and amazing drag queens can be, so audiences won't sit through a boring show anymore. You have to keep people entertained.”
“In the gay community there are not very many Jewish drag queens. I've always found that funny because there are a lot of Jewish gay people out there, so why aren't there more Jewish drag queens?”
“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.”
“You can't believe that you're the best at everything.”
“I'm not the hugest fan of pop music and electro music, which is why 'The Inevitable Album' was entirely live instruments.”
“Australian audiences seem ready for anything you throw at them.”
“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.”
“Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.”
“I always say better busy than dead.”
“Christmas used to be my favorite time of year. But as an adult, it's a time of year where it's like, do I have to go through this again?”
“There's a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I've always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.”
“I think the best way I've grown as an artist period, not just in relation to creating music, is having a lot more confidence in myself.”
“If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.”
“Drag queens, our whole art form is about taking inspiration from artists we adore.”