Sharon Needles

“I find doppelgangers terrifying... can you imagine two of me?! Now that's scary!”

“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.”

“I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.”

“I represent a kind of underground, punk side of drag.”

“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.”

“Campy films almost create real-life cartoons.”

“When in doubt, freak 'em out.”

“A man in a dress can get away with a lot.”

“I was raised on GG Allen, Divine, Elvira and Marilyn Manson. I was always more interested in those button pushing, transgressive artists and they made a lot of good money doing it.”

“Everyone loves puppets.”

“Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.”

“It has always been my aim to live everyday like Halloween by celebrating individuality and creative freedom within a world of horror.”

“After I went on 'Drag Race,' I was allowed to do so many things. I was allowed to do theater, commercial work, television work, modeling, fashion design, and it was great. But the thing with reality television fame is that it's got a pretty quick expiration date.”

“Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?”

“It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.”

“I went into 'RuPaul's Drag Race' saying, 'I'll never cry.' Because they make fun of every queen that cries on the show. And I did cry, and I did scream, and I did have doubt, and I did have great, victorious moments.”

“If you were to come in to my house, I have archived every fan letter I've ever been given, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of them.”

“Monster Mash' is one of those great, throwback Halloween songs.”

“I'm the sort of person who wants to wear a wedding dress to a wedding.”

“The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.”