On her micro teacup poodle Nugget:
“I collect tiny things. She brings so much love. When I wake up, she’s the only serotonin I need.”
On fashion:
“Fashion is just a language. It’s storytelling. I am so encouraged by the big morph in fashion that’s happening at the moment. Everybody is shape-shifting, changing, adapting...I like more androgynous, architectural lately. I am happy to be another interpretation of myself.”
On her conservative upbringing:
“The schools were really makeshift. Education was not the first priority. My education started in my 20s, and there is so much to learn still. [I was not] allowed to interact with gay people, [and] there is some generational racism. But I came out of the womb asking questions, curious from day one, and I am really grateful for that: My curiosity has led me here. Anything I don’t understand, I will just ask questions about...[My world tours are a process of] reeducation—really I am on this genius road trip throughout the world because when we tour, we tour very well and we see the sights...I miss references all the time. Amy Grant was our Madonna. We knew about Madonna and Marilyn Manson in my family because we picketed their concerts.”
On discovering Queen when she was 15:
“I had never heard such an imaginative explanation of how to live. That was my first perspective on that world, and I just loved it. I felt so free and accepted.”
On growing up:
"[32 is] a nice place to be. I love it! I wouldn’t give anything to go back to my 20s; I’m so much more grounded. And I’ve learned a lot of lessons—patience, the art of saying no, that everything doesn’t have to end in marriage. That your education can start now. I blasted off on a rocket, holding on for dear life. But I had so much ambition and determination, and that’s what kept me going. The rocket was riding me for a bit, but now I am riding the rocket.”
On therapy:
“It’s changed my life. When I am in the room I am just Katheryn Hudson, which is amazing because people in my position hear yes too much, and it kills them or makes them completely disconnected from reality—and I don’t want that.”
Read the full interview at Vogue.
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