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Trixie Mattel

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
I’m very proud of my career. A lot of people get their career from the judges of ‘Drag Race’ saying they’re great. I had to go and build that reputation from the ground up.
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Build Career Greatness Judgement Myself People Proud Reputation
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 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’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
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Attitude Difference Drag Myself Personality
Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
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Best Bond Friendship
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
I have definitely had guys walk up to me, put their arm around me, and when they walk away, my shoulder smells like taco meat.
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Funny Hug Man Myself Touch Walk
Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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Celebration Drag Feminine Love Myself Woman
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
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 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 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
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
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 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
One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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Myself Oneself Reward
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 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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Feeling Memories Myself Play Thinking Weird Young
Dark comedy helped me survive.
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Comedy Darkness Myself One Liner Survive
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 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
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
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
Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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Drag Favorite Myself Woman
I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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Appearance Choice Factory Myself
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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Bad Deal Myself Production Wonderful

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