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.
TRIXIE MATTELPeople on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
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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Dark comedy helped me survive.
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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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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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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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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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I’m like the Justin Bieber of the drag world.
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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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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
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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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Most drag queens, they put on music like it’s a costume. It’s not in their bones. It’s not in their background.
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One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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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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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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