"I see beauty as a hidden truth within, under, and around things," he says. "For me, beauty is the reflection of the celestial through the physical. It's the essence of the beyond as we get to perceive it in the mundane."
"Ancient makeup practices were not about decorating a façade, but about representing what cannot be readily seen in the façade to yourself or to others," A good lipstick, for Miller, "can convince me that my lips are silver."
"I like it when lipstick evokes the possibility that someone's lips actually just look like that, and turns them into a humanoid being from the fiery inner Earth."
A lot of time, our ideas about what gender means are very surface. I'm masculine because I just am that way, I just look that way, that's what my body is. And what drag, especially drag make up, plays with is the actual constructed-ness of those things.
The ability to make yourself look masculine or make yourself look feminine draws a question in people's minds about how real or natural those things ever are, because each and every one of us goes through decisions, and steps, and styling ourself every morning to push ourself in whatever direction we want to be perceived in.