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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.

Trixie Mattel

Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
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Drag Exercise Try Yourself
I 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.
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Audience Different Drag Experience Love Myself People Straight Vacation
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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Alone Crazy Myself Night Performance Silence Time
I guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don’t think I’m better than anybody else, but I really think that I’m hilarious and beautiful.
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Beautiful Believe Better Funny Myself Thinking Work
I don’t expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, ‘I love ‘Drag Race,’ and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.’ Not necessarily an obvious crossover.
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Drag Expectation Myself Necessary People
I 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.
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Expectation Fame Fulfill Myself Record Satisfaction Start
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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Artist Different Drag Myself Thinking
My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.
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Country Music Myself Professional Sing Young
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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Appearance Drag Ignorance Love Myself Talk Work
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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Live Moments Myself Phone Reality Sing Stop
I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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Change Life Love Myself
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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Audience Love Mindset Myself Perception Thinking
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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Better Forever Mindset Movie Myself Remember See Work
I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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Children Family Forever Myself Poor Stay
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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Country Listening Music Myself Parents Sing
Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
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Best Bond Friendship

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