I play a lot of video games, cook meals for my best friends and chosen family in Seattle, and find time to visit my family in Portland, Oregon.

I started drag in Portland, Oregon, but I don't feel that I came to life as a drag queen until I started working in Seattle. That's what really lit the rocket fuel in my career.

I've always been into the music of the 1920s and 1930s.

I want people to see that you don't have to be catty and mean to be a superstar.

Australian audiences seem ready for anything you throw at them.

We have such an amazing drag community, and I don't think people fully realize it about Seattle.

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.

When I'm doing an exaggerated character, I hope it's clear I don't think this is how women do, or should, act. There's aspects of Looney Tunes in drag. But there's something poignant about a man dressed as a woman, talking about gender. It can make you realize how similar the genders really are.

If you have to mask the things you're insecure about, go ahead. Wear four pairs of pantyhose, pad your hips, boost your boobs - whatever it takes to walk out of the house feeling like you own the world. Because there's no reason to waste your life hating something you can change.

I've had some really great experiences in London and the fans are really loyal and always happy to have us.

We like to take pop songs that have really cool, complex melodies or lyrics and strip away all that fluff and electronic noise, and put them back as if they were written for a singer and a piano.

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.

I feel that drag queens impersonate very strong, independent women who inspired us throughout our lives.

Drag is very much an art form, and all art goes through ebbs and flows and trends.

Almost all the Disney villain witches are gay icons.

You don't know that you're not a solo artist or standup comedian or drag cabaret artist until you try it.

I prefer to be gender fluid or non-gendered and I dress in drag almost every day of my life even if I'm not in my full Jinkx Monsoon persona - I'm the kind of person who does not dress like my assigned gender and I wear makeup every day and sometimes wear wigs as a boy.

Ever since I was a kid I just thought that women had the better outfits, women had the better hair, women got to wear makeup. I just got jealous of what women got to do onstage. You dress up a man and ultimately it's just a different variation on the same kind of suit. There's a whole wide world of what women wear onstage.

I think my favourite thing about doing conventions is the parents taking their kids to see their favourite drag idols, because open-minded, progressive parents are making such a change in the world right now. The more open-minded these kids are being raised, the more hope I have for the future.

My long-term goal is to play a drag role or a female role in a Broadway production.

I am a transgender identified person.

First, it was a big deal for girls to dress more like guys. Then it was a big deal for straight men to be metereosexuals and care about their appearance in the way that a gay man would. Now we have to take it a step further - men should be able to not wear men's clothes if they don't want to.

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?

It's hard to have a fruitful romantic life when I'm never in one place for long.

I am only really attracted to people who are very open-minded and embrace and celebrate people who live outside the gender norm.

What I love that has happened for years now with 'Drag Race' is the queens can go on to have any kind of career.

It was like I have always had big dreams for my drag aspirations, and I talked myself into doing 'Drag Race.' I'm like, take a chance.

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.

While I'm out of drag, I'm still extremely effeminate.

If you hide, you won't find the eccentric people who will be your best friends.

I used to watch 'Death Becomes Her,' and I knew I wanted to become Meryl Streep.

I want to be a role model and an advocate for social change.

I want a computer that's bigger than my TV at home!

I've been dressing like a girl my entire life!

I basically can't go to any gay bar in America without getting mobbed, which is fun and tiring.

I find a lot of joy from legitimate theater. But Jinkx is my passion project.

I think this is a trait that runs throughout the queer community, the obsession with the hyper-feminine female villains. And we see it in Disney movies and in movies like 'Death Becomes Her,' and in characters like Poison Ivy and Catwoman.

I'm going to release whatever feels right and what I think is going to spread a good message about my artistry and what I believe.

A lot of people just feel really impacted and inspired by drag in ways that I don't think we, as self-absorbed drag queens, think about that often.

The idea behind Jinkx is that she's a single mother and failed actress. One time she went out to a gay bar with her son, who's a gay adult, and started singing torch songs on the bar and became a hit. Now she's every gay boy's favorite cabaret act.

I was raised Catholic primarily by my mom's side of the family. But at 18, I found out there was an adoption in the family, and that I was of Russian Jewish descent on my mom's side. After that, I started to look more into the philosophies and culture of Judaism.

Sarah Silverman has always been a huge influence on my comedy.

I can't speak for the Jewish population, but I attribute my sense of humor to the tragic moments of my life. The best way to overcome certain tragedies is to develop a thick skin and sense of humor about things. Of course, I am very politically conscious and careful about my comedy. But when I do push an envelope, it's with a purpose.

I did 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' two years in a row in the winter in Seattle, and that was an amazing experience both times.

Well, I think 'Addams Family Values' is definitely a gay icon movie and definitely a drag queen icon movie that no one ever talks about.

You can't believe that you're the best at everything.

There's a mixture of pride and self-loathing in Jewish female comedians that I've always admired and wanted to bring into Jinkx.

Jinkx is a single mother and I've seen so many strong Jewish women.

I was so nervous competing against Lyneshia Sparx. She's so gorgeous, and she's hilarious. When you get to know her, she's the most lovely person.

I mean, drag is a universal language.