I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
TRIXIE MATTELWhen someone says ‘Yasss queen!’ to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You’ll never hear from me again.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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.
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I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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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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Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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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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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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I’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
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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.
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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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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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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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I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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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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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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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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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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One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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I’m very business-minded. I think that’s something that sets me aside from other drag queens.
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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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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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As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.
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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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