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.
TRIXIE MATTELWhen I was on ‘Drag Race,’ it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens and then Katya and I were also there.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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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’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
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Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
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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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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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I’m very business-minded. I think that’s something that sets me aside from other drag queens.
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I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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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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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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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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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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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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I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
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I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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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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