When I was on ‘Drag Race,’ it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens and then Katya and I were also there.
TRIXIE MATTELI 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.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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Dark comedy helped me survive.
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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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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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I don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.
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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 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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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped.’ That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for ‘Beautiful’ existed, so obviously I was affected.
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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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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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I’m like the Justin Bieber of the drag world.
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I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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I 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.
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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 was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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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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My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
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