Trixie Mattel

I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.

— Trixie Mattel

I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.

— Trixie Mattel

I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

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That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really…

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Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know…

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I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have…

— Trixie Mattel

My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.

— Trixie Mattel

When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much…

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I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person.

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I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

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Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and 'Drag Race' is a family, and we support our family members through…

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RuPaul might not broadcast herself as political, but I think she tries to make moves in American history by catching more flies…

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I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that…

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As a kid, I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, but I would take my cousin's My Little Pony and smell it.…

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I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped.' That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was…

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For years, 'Drag Race' was gay people's best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn't know anything about it. Look…

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Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it's a difficult way to get people to take…

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'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows,…

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With Trixie specifically, on the one hand, it's a celebration of femininity. It's that moment when you're playing Pretty Pretty Princess, and…

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I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers.…

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If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be…

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I'm such a Shangela fan. I think she exemplifies 'Drag Race' greatness. She's like the Tiffany 'New York' Pollard of 'Drag Race.'…

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When I was on 'Drag Race,' it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens... and then Katya and I…

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I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma's…

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Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens…

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Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it's how I deal with things. It's wonderful.

— Trixie Mattel

I don't think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and…

— Trixie Mattel

My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger,…

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I've always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own…

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When someone says 'Yasss queen!' to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You'll never hear from me…

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Katya and I, as a yin and a yang, we pretty much represent the entire, full gambit of talent, you know? Together,…

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Trixie is like a hyper-feminine child's toy who has it all. I love looking like I'm from Toys 'R Us but serving…

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I don't expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, 'I love 'Drag Race,' and then I got…

— Trixie Mattel

People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.

— Trixie Mattel

I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear…

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I remember seeing RuPaul in 'The Brady Bunch Movie,' when she says to Jan, 'Girl, you better work.' And I froze it…

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I'm very proud of my career. A lot of people get their career from the judges of 'Drag Race' saying they're great.…

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I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

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The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me…

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To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And 'Drag Race' is about doing what you're told…

— Trixie Mattel