A biography for Sharon Needleshasn’t been written yet.
“Drag queens don't work well outside. We're designed for spotlights, not sunlight.”
“I love celebrities, and I love the concept of fame, but it took me getting fame to realize that it doesn't exist, which was kind of a bummer. Fame is great if you're not famous, because it seems like this elusive impossible dream world. And it's not. It's a fancy word that managers and producers make up so they can keep hawking you for more money.”
“Discrimination must always be drawn out, like venom from the wound.”
“The secret to a great Halloween costume, and I can't stress this enough, is in my opinion is to extract sexuality out of your costume.”
“On 'PG-13,' the way I wrote that is that I would get my tracks ahead of time and then I would write for them, and I wrote fairly quickly.”
“When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.”
“I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.”
“I love what news has become. It's no longer based on facts, it's based on entertainment.”
“My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do it.”
“When your hobby becomes a full-time job that pays you and the people around you, it's not fun anymore.”
“My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.”
“Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.”
“Growing up in Iowa I could have had it a lot worse. My family was more worried about my education and my health than the fact that I wore my sister's dresses.”
“A Scream Queen is a beautiful, bad actress who's really good at screaming, but it also represents standing up for equality and anti-bullying for LGBT youth.”
“I come from regional, small-city drag, where if you won Miss Des Moines, Iowa, and you did something bad, or you were being a role model, your crown was taken away.”
“Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'”
“It's a pleasure to join the ranks of Debbie Rochon, Linnea Quigley, and Heather Langenkamp as one of America's most recognizable Scream Queens!”
“I like work that pushes the barrier of bad taste.”
“I could talk about myself for hours!”
“I've always said that punk is a time and money thing. You can only be punk if you're poor and you're young. It's for the poor, it's for the young.”