Roan: "Really, I’m here to give back all the energy that the queer community has given to me."

Roan: "It’s kind of an imposter syndrome – that because I’ve dated men in the past, it doesn’t make me as queer as someone who has only dated queer people."

Roan: "I was the thrift store pop girl – it was so drag; I learned how to embellish my own costumes."

Roan: "I was told this city is demonic and Satanists live here, but when I got to West Hollywood, it opened my eyes to the fact that everything I was afraid of wasn’t always true – especially what I’d been told about the queer community. Going to gay clubs for the first time, it felt spiritual."

Roan: "Right now I’m really inspired by dance music."

Roan: "I had a very small fan base, but they were scared I would lose it. And sure I lost a few people, but I gained so many more – and it was a new community that I was now in. But I don’t think the label believed in me."

Roan: "I feel like another girl in the local drag competition. Like another girl on Drag Race. I don’t think I’m a judge yet."

Roan: "I was raised on Christian rock, but I never identified with it. I felt such a push and pull because I was so curious about pop music but couldn’t identify why I related to it. It was a lifestyle I did not live. I was very sheltered and very prude."

Roan: "Sometimes that scares me, but my project only helps affirm who I am."

NME: The 25-year-old from LA via smalltown Missouri makes fun, flashy, in-your-face party music that has queerness stamped through it like a stick of rock. When people hear her name, she wants their first thought to be “drag queen.”