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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

My 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.
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Character Children Experience Father Growth Myself Poor Relationship
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
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
As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.
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Artist Comedy Drag Listening People Time
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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Clothes Comfortable Drag Fashion Hate Myself
My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
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Drag Favorite Myself Sanity
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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Family Health Mental Myself Support
Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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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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Music Myself Play Thinking Touch Writing
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
People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
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Life Myself People Violence Walk
Out of drag, I’m a white guy with a guitar, which isn’t special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.
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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 and go, ‘yaassssss.’
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Best Creation Distance Myself Person Spiritual Way
When someone says ‘Yasss queen!’ to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You’ll never hear from me again.
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Attitude Myself Run Wall Yourself
Something ‘Drag Race’ is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don’t know everything. They don’t have all the answers.
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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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Fashion Myself Woman

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