I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.
TRIXIE MATTELI live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.
TRIXIE MATTELI always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
TRIXIE MATTELI didn’t start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfillment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV. I never expected any of it.
TRIXIE MATTELMy look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.
TRIXIE MATTELMost drag queens, they put on music like it’s a costume. It’s not in their bones. It’s not in their background.
TRIXIE MATTELSomething that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
TRIXIE MATTELMy favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
TRIXIE MATTELDrag will always find a way to be weird.
TRIXIE MATTELI’ve always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m like the Justin Bieber of the drag world.
TRIXIE MATTELI love that drag is a way for people to vacation in the gay nightlife, but… it’s quite a different experience to perform for a gay audience than a straight audience.
TRIXIE MATTELThat’s something I like about drag – I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don’t really like to relinquish control.
TRIXIE MATTELI hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
TRIXIE MATTELI think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they’re perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.
TRIXIE MATTELFor years, ‘Drag Race’ was gay people’s best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn’t know anything about it. Look at it now: it’s like it’s gone from black and white to IMAX.
TRIXIE MATTELPeople on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
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