I hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
TRIXIE MATTELI hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
TRIXIE MATTELI always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
TRIXIE MATTELAs drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.
TRIXIE MATTELMost drag queens, they put on music like it’s a costume. It’s not in their bones. It’s not in their background.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
TRIXIE MATTELI listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash – a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
TRIXIE MATTELKatya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
TRIXIE MATTELKatya 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 MATTELI think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they’re perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.
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.
TRIXIE MATTELI 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.
TRIXIE MATTELI love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
TRIXIE MATTELI 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 MATTELDark comedy helped me survive.
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