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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.

Trixie Mattel

That’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.
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Art Control Drag Hard Myself
In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don’t make it my place to – like, I’m not super confrontational.
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Belief Myself Place Reality Time World
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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Drag Money Music Myself Pay Weapon
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
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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Appearance Command Drag Identity Instrument Man Myself White
People 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.
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Comfortable People Recognition Slow Yourself
I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.
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Break Up Celebrity Myself Planning Profit
I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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Change Life Love Myself
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
To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And ‘Drag Race’ is about doing what you’re told and having it evaluated. I hate being judged.
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Drag Hate Judgement Myself
Dark comedy helped me survive.
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Comedy Darkness Myself One Liner Survive
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 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
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
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
One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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Myself Oneself Reward
Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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Drag One Liner Way Weird
Drag Race’ doesn’t claim to represent drag as a whole. ‘Drag Race’ is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other’s art and who your real identity is – name, gender, hair color, anything.
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Art Drag Identity Reality Represent Respect See Yourself
I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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Ability Goodness Myself Talent Voice
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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Black Change Drag Enjoyment Listening Mirror People Slow Thinking Yourself
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
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
For 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.
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Best Black Drag Hide Make Up Myself People Secret Start White
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 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
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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Bad Hard Time Regret Trouble Yourself
Katya and I, as a yin and a yang, we pretty much represent the entire, full gambit of talent, you know? Together, there’s not really much we can’t do.
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Friendship Myself Relationship Represent Talent Togetherness

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