"Bright eyed and bushy browed! Be the strange you wish to see in the world! Sasha Velour relies on brains, beauty be damned, let monsters reign. If you want to join the revolution: innovate, that's my solution! Wear a crown, **** with gender, bend the rules, don't surrender. A thinking queen speaks to the heart, she's stranger than fiction, better than art! I'm- I'm more true than real, I'm a magical bitch, darling, that's how I feel! (screams)"

"Don't joke about that."

"Your misogyny is showing."

*screams*

"Radical, magical, liberal art Gender is a construct, tear it apart Wearable art and terrible art It's the motherfucking world is unbearable art This part, this is for us Don't need a museum, this club is enough For a revolution with the best intentions Beauty with a twist, just an intervention Yes ma'am, I'll take that dollar Doesn't even matter, I'm a Fulbright scholar I'd rather be modest, but I need to show it There's a lot of pretty girls, but a queen better know **** Femmes, rebels, meddle with gender Realness bores me, I'm a better pretender Brooklyn witches, revolutionary Come up with a read that's better than hairy"

"Today I'm putting on my drag with rage and grief."

"When I was on the show, I said I will never create drag queen music. There's too much of it and it's horrible," she said. "But then they kind of tricked me into [doing] this weird, academic talk-rapping that's — it's not for everyone, but the people who love it are really into it."

"I mean, it's been one of the biggest things I've gotten pushback about, is being an intellectual and what that means," she said. "I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me it wasn't like a negative thing. And what I've discovered is for a lot of people it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas — like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys. I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker."