Drag has come a long way and people are respecting it, and giving drag queens and other people who defy gender norms more chances than they've ever been given before, but it's thanks to people like RuPaul, especially, who set that momentum going.

Who knows where I would be if I hadn't gone on Drag Race and gotten that kick in the rear to step it up to the next level?

In any kind of performance field, there are always going to be 101 people doing the exact same thing as you. You always constantly have to be thinking of, 'What's going to shock my audience the most?'

As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'

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.

I'm extremely into Greek Mythology and know almost everything about the classic Greek myths.

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'm not the hugest fan of pop music and electro music, which is why 'The Inevitable Album' was entirely live instruments.

It's silly, but 'You Really Got a Hold on Me' has been a favorite song of mine for a long time.

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.

Coming out as nonbinary was a response to a lot of criticism I got when it leaked that I'd be playing a nonbinary character on 'Steven Universe.' I never really had the words like nonbinary or gender fluid or gender nonconforming until after 'Drag Race' and that's when I first started identifying publicly as nonbinary.

To be completely honest, I find New York to be too much city for me.

Drag is very regional.

I think there's something for anyone who wants to be a performer in Seattle.

That openness to experimentation in Seattle is how I learned a drag queen doesn't have to just be in her pageant gear and lip syncing to top 40. Drag can be off-the-wall, ridiculous, profound.

I always say better busy than dead.

There was a time when I said I wouldn't do something like that but I've seen so many of my friends go on the 'All Stars' seasons and they seem to be having a lot of fun for the most part.

Most people tell me that what they are surprised about the most is that I sing really well, I always find it funny.

I guess it wasn't really part of my story on 'Drag Race' but I'm a trained actor and singer.

I call myself a gorgeous anachronism.

Don't be afraid of wearing a lot of makeup. Like, a lot. Your eyes deserve to be showcased. I think it's important to just remember that whatever you think you hate about yourself, there's a way to counter that with makeup and make that part of you beautiful.

When your career and your passion one in the same there is very little downtime.

When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about.

Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.

Drag queens, our whole art form is about taking inspiration from artists we adore.

With Jinkx Monsoon, I strive to make her pretty and likable and have this bubbly, lovely personality. But then she can also be the most crass, out of the blue, kooky character.

It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.

There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.

Managers of hospitals over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service, and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

I can honestly say I've never sold any arms to a repressive foreign regime while reassuring everyone at home that the weapons will be used for nice things.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

People can forgive each other.