Drag will always find a way to be weird.
TRIXIE MATTELThe best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, ‘yaassssss.’
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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I don’t think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too.
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My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
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I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.
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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 costume, wig, music and jokes.
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One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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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 anything.
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Some people say that ‘Drag Race’ is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it’s about shaking RuPaul down for her money.
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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.
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When I’m in drag, I don’t always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.
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I’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
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I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
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I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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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. Patsy Cline.
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Bad things can happen to you, but it doesn’t mean you have to have regrets. It’s all about what you do with it.
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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 in my mind forever.
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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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I think people are slowly realizing that don’t have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they’re realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn’t make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.
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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 crazy.
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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.
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I hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
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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 were also there.
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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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I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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Dark comedy helped me survive.
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I don’t dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.
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