On Performance:
     
"It's one thing to tell a story, and it's quite another to be entertaining at the same time."
   

Oregon Daily Emerald

   

May 7, 2007

     
     
"Wherever you perform becomes a holy place, whether it's a subway station, school lunch room, or a stage."
    New York Arts Magazine
    July 2004
 
 
"My mission is to create beautiful, lasting impressions that are not just pictures of gay and lesbians, but are human, timeless, and that belong to the world."
Brainerd Daily-Dispatch
March 15, 2001
     
     
"I'm making human contact. People in my profession sometimes have to call upon all the different forms of communication to make connections.

"Comics feel very comfortable when they make people laugh. Dramatists feel very comfortable when they make people cry. Dancers like to wow people with their dancing ability, and singers hypnotize people with song..

"These are all different ways of touching people's hearts. There's not just one way."
    Richmond Times-Dispatch
    April 18, 2004
     
On Activism:
     
"I'm not about gay rights. I'm about human rights. It was never about Jews or African-Americans or Chicanos. It was about people being slaughtered and discriminated against."
Richmond Times-Dispatch
April 18, 2004
 
     
Quotes from activists:
     
"Jade Esteban Estrada is, without a doubt, one of the best and most important artists San Antonio has ever bred and definitely our ambassador to the world."
Gene Elder
Happy Foundation

June 11, 2007

 
 


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