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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.

Trixie Mattel

Most drag queens, they put on music like it’s a costume. It’s not in their bones. It’s not in their background.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Bone Drag Music Personality
I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don’t know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea – I have a bottom line – but I never look because I always make believe there’s never anything in there.
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Believe Crazy Ideas Money Myself Sound
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Better Forever Mindset Movie Myself Remember See Work
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
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
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
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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Appearance Artist Goodness Human Performance
Dark comedy helped me survive.
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Comedy Darkness Myself One Liner Survive
I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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Crazy Humor Myself Strange Weird
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 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
Whatever is underneath all the drag, it actually doesn’t really matter. It kind of just matters, are you a great entertainer? And are you nice to work with? Are you good at your job?
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Appearance Drag Entertainment Fashion Goodness Greatness Job Kind Work Yourself
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 like the Justin Bieber of the drag world.
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Attitude Drag Identity Myself Personality World
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
People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Life Myself People Violence Walk
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
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Friendship Myself Relationship Represent Talent Togetherness
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
Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Drag Favorite Myself Woman
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Art Drag Identity Reality Represent Respect See Yourself
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
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’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
I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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Appearance Choice Factory Myself
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.’
TRIXIE MATTEL

Best Creation Distance Myself Person Spiritual Way
One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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Myself Oneself Reward

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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