Bob the Drag Queen

The process of going on 'Drag Race' is, in my opinion, more than a fiscal investment. It's cultural. It's the 'Game of Thrones' of reality TV.

I have watched Peppermint for years and I know how smart and clever and funny she can be with a lip-sync.

I'm home maybe five days a month, but they're never next to each other.

I clean up real nice.

Not only does the title 'We're Here' highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.

I was really afraid to do one of those shows where like, gays go and make straight people's lives better and then they leave town.

I felt that society had told me out loud clearly and in no unclear terms, that there were several aspects of my personality, my life, my body, and my existence that were quite worthless. And then I found a community that said, 'No, girl. You're actually nailing it. All these things are great.'

If you need help with your mental health do not seek drag as a therapy, go to your therapist.

Just because you have a chosen family doesn't mean that your family threw you out.

There's a narrative that anyone who goes out and chooses a family must have been thrown to the curb and stomped down to the ground by their families at home. That's not always the case, but sometimes you just need love from people who have extremely similar experiences.

I love how Americans are like, 'I'm just going to get up and move!' That's not how the world works. You don't get to just get up and move to Canada.

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

The movie where me and Leslie Jones play siblings will manifest at some point in time.

Well, I got into the business to make people laugh and to entertain people. I've always loved the idea that I could make someone happy and help someone really enjoy their day.

I have to get my stuff made custom if I want my gown to touch the floor, my sleeves to touch my wrist.

I did not spend a lot of money. I realistically spent maybe, maybe $3,000 to go on 'Drag Race.'

Activism doesn't always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting 'hell no, we won't go' at the top of your lungs.

Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's not always about wearing black and listening to a Sarah McLachlan song.

It's okay to say you're doing well in the time of tragedy.

I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I'm putting out there has to be something I'm proud of.

I've been a drag queen in public for a while now.

You don't get to tell people why they can't be offended. That's not how that works.

Drag music is music. And it's okay for me to call it drag music because for me that has value.

No one lives their lives not making jokes about things.

It is interesting because even if you are great, and phenomenal, and talented, if you aren't easy to work with, no one is going to want to work with you. That's just the way it is.

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

My first time in drag was at Pride. I'm a Pride queen. It was a disaster. The short answer is that you can do it, but you're going to create a drag faux-pas. Do not, I repeat, do not wear high heels to Pride. Don't do it. It's not worth it. Just don't do it to yourself, honey.

That's what Pride really is: A chance for people who are extremely queer to feel, once-a-year, extremely normal.

I've never been a straight guy, but it certainly seems that being one is exhausting. Every part of a straight guy's day is somehow related to him letting people know that he's straight.

Ben Nye is bussin'. Bussin'! It is genuinely great makeup, but because people think that it's just for plays, they don't consider it.

We need more Black, cisgender straight men to be willing to come out and say: 'I stand with Black trans people.'

Dreams really do come true, which sounds so cheesy but it's really true.

When I got the phone call that I was going to be on 'Drag Race' I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win 'Drag Race' before I was even cast. I'm not even being funny. I'm being serious.

My whole life I've been purse first.

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.

I make fun of a lot of stuff I shouldn't make fun of.

I hate the term 'the future of drag.' It's so silly.

Tidicue is not my real last name. It's just T-D-Q, as in 'The Drag Queen.'

Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!

I listen to 'This American Life,' 'Serial,' 'S-Town,' 'Feast of Fun.' I listened to 'What's the Tee?' And that has really helped me throughout my entire drag career - podcasts have been a mainstay in my life as a drag artist.

I like to, you know, add a little bit of my expression into my coffee - I was really doing French Vanilla for a minute, but I realized that the International Delight Caramel Macchiato: She's the girl for me.

I actually really love the taste of a very sugary coffee; I'm one of those folks who is like, 'I would like a little coffee with my creamer.'

Listen, there is no equality without the loss of power. Someone is going to have to lose power. That is really uncomfortable for some people to actually think about, but in order for marginalized people to gain power, white, cisgender, straight, people are going to have to lose some and that's just how it is.

I love keeping busy.

If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn't give them a hard time for going through it. You'd be like, it's ok you're going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you'd offer to others.

Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm sad.

My mom was one of the moms who was like, 'You are so handsome why aren't you modeling? I am handsome, but model... let's not get crazy.

No one told me that if you can't sing, you probably won't be on Broadway. No one told me that!

It is a known fact that RuPaul's dresses are in two chunks. Sometimes she'll work the runway and take off all of her padding and put on some sweatpants and Ugg slippers and walk around the studio.

You know, people come up to me saying, 'Watching you gave me the courage to come out to my parents,' or, 'I watched you and I decided to start doing drag,' or, people will just come up and say, 'It's you.' Like they can't even form sentences because they're crying because they're seeing someone they admired on television.