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I hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.

Trixie Mattel

I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma’s kitchen is probably my fondest memories I’ll ever have.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Feeling Memories Myself Play Thinking Weird Young
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Expectation Fame Fulfill Myself Record Satisfaction Start
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
I’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Best Expectation Kind Myself Optimism Personality Preparation Worst
Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Drag Exercise Try Yourself
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
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Bad Hard Time Regret Trouble Yourself
Dark comedy helped me survive.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Comedy Darkness Myself One Liner Survive
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Best Black Drag Hide Make Up Myself People Secret Start White
People are slowly realizing that they’re looking at drag all the time. ‘Mrs. Doubtfire.’ ‘Real Housewives.’ Peewee Herman. Don’t let calling it drag make you uncomfortable.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Comfortable People Recognition Slow Yourself
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Attitude Myself Run Wall Yourself
Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it’s how I deal with things. It’s wonderful.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Bad Deal Myself Production Wonderful
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.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Audience Different Drag Experience Love Myself People Straight Vacation
I’m an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that’s why my drag is a little different.
TRIXIE MATTEL

Artist Different Drag Myself Thinking
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
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

Country Music Myself Professional Sing Young

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