Katya Zamolodchikova Quotes

I was gonna try to go to grad school to teach foreign language.

I love New York, but I can’t deal with the cold and the small space.

It actually was ‘RuPaul’s Best Friend Race’ for me.

Count on me to shine where it doesn’t count.

You’re not homophobic for thinking that something gay is bad. All gay movies are bad.

I think you can safely joke about anything. Mostly.

I don’t ever wanna be mainstream.

I don’t wash my hair.

I’ve been obsessed with David Letterman forever, and I’d love to be the drag version of David Letterman.

I love every color!

Drag is a chicken suit, and you’re very emboldened. Whatever you do or say or fail at or succeed at is attributed to your costume and not you as a person. So there’s a lot of freedom.

I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years. It’s weird.

Success doesn’t find you when you’re alone in your house.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That’s all it is.

I never give gifts!

I think Trixie and I get the least amount of hate out of all the ‘Drag Race’ alumni.

I love love. Every day of my life is Valentine’s Day. When you’re a pathological narcissist, you have to fall in love with yourself every day.

Drag is a gift.

I don’t like board games.

I don’t try to represent myself in a way that’s not connected with my everyday reality, because I’m not smart enough to do that.

I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.

I have no boundaries. I have nothing to hide.

Drag, in my view these days, has become the thing it used to make fun of – which is Jennifer Lopez. Now we all want to be her. We have stylists; we have special photographers.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

Not everybody needs to be a weirdo.