Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
TRIXIE MATTELSome of my favorite drag queens are women.
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.’
TRIXIE MATTELI’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
TRIXIE MATTELI love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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 MATTELDrag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
TRIXIE MATTELBad things can happen to you, but it doesn’t mean you have to have regrets. It’s all about what you do with it.
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 MATTELPeople are slowly realizing that they’re looking at drag all the time. ‘Mrs. Doubtfire.’ ‘Real Housewives.’ Peewee Herman. Don’t let calling it drag make you uncomfortable.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m very business-minded. I think that’s something that sets me aside from other drag queens.
TRIXIE MATTELI want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
TRIXIE MATTELI 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.
TRIXIE MATTELWhen someone says ‘Yasss queen!’ to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You’ll never hear from me again.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
TRIXIE MATTELI listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash – a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.
TRIXIE MATTELI think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma’s kitchen is probably my fondest memories I’ll ever have.
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