Twiggy

“Well, there are millions of numbers I've done, there are millions of numbers I want to do. And there are millions of numbers I've never done. So I think it evolves each time each year, each performance, something new happens or something else comes in or some kind of FAD is happening. And I try and keep up with that I don't really follow top 40 or commercial, but I tend to do me like I do my characters with the research and how I like to do them. So I don't know if I think each time you can always learn something new. So I think it evolves each time I do it each time I do a performance there's something else.”

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Hmm, it's hard to say it's, it's a part of me. That never goes away. It's like, are you familiar with the song Mah Na Mah Na? It's always in my head. So when people will send me a link or a little clip of the Mah Na Mah Na. It's just... thank you, but it never leaves my head. It's always in there. So that's kind of where Twiggy is. She, they, are always in my head, always there. It just depends on what embellishment I'm wearing. ”

“I wouldn't wish drag on my best friend or my worst enemy used to be what we would
say, in 80s and 90s. Because it was hard it would when when people general people would find out you are a drag queen, you would not get a date. So your love life would suffer? Because, you know, you were less than you weren't. It wasn't like, oh, this fabulous performer you were an oddity in the gay community, even though there's been Queens since the beginning of time and in the gay community, as well as the street theatre community. But the role has changed as we go on. But back then it was harder to get a date, it's harder to be like people would say, Oh, that's a queen, don't talk to them. You know, so that was a difficult for a lot of people and they would stop doing drag because of that fact, because they weren't going out on dates, people were talking behind their backs and, and treating them less than until they were on stage. And then they were all that in a bag of chips.

Now - Drag I think encompasses performance and being on a stage and attention. A lot of people will do drag for the attention because you're taking yourself and
creating a new character. That's not you, generally, depending on what the character is, and you can get away with murder. You know, not literally, but there's so many VISTAs
And so many opinions and things open to you when you're in a character that you don't have just being a wallflower type of person. Yeah, so it's hard to define what the role of drag is because it's different for everyone. It's a very personal thing, you know?
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“I would give advice I'd give to someone who wanted to become a drag artist or performer in
general, is be yourself, do the research. If you're your own character, really, there's no
research. It's how you feel and what you feel and you present that. And people will hate it or love it, it won't matter as long as you love it. If they know that and they can feel that they will send the love back to you. So So do it for yourself. Don't do it under peer pressure, or because someone else thinks you'd be good at it.
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