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" 'All Stars' is a weird game. The rules are weird. However, I think 'All Stars' mirrors the real industry much more closely than normal seasons of 'Drag Race' do. In the real world of entertainment, it really is about the impressions you leave on your brothers and sisters in the room, and that's kind of what it is about. "
Stars
Think
Game
" Any time there is an economic downturn or political strife, lipstick sales skyrocket. If you have a hard day, it's this $14 thing that lifts your day. I think drag has that same lipstick effect. "
Day
Lipstick
Political
" As a kid, I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, but I would take my cousin's My Little Pony and smell it. That weird, synthetic, fruity-sweet smell - that's how I wanted to look. I wanted to look like this fabricated toy. I wanted to look like you could pull a string on my back, and I would say, like, six catchphrases. "
Look
Back
You
" As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time. "
Compass
Drag
Time
" 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. "
Things
Regrets
Bad
" Dark comedy helped me survive. "
Survive
Helped
Dark
" Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it's a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it's a weird Catch-22. It's like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they're like, 'There's no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.' "
Me
Great
Attention
" Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star. "
Satire
Stars
Fun
" Drag queens always base their personas on their favorite female icons. Mine was Barbie, who's not necessarily a human but is as iconic and beautiful as any woman. I started really pushing it because I hit a crossroads of, 'I don't want to look like a woman or a man. I want to look like a wind-up toy, a plaything manufactured in a factory.' "
Look
Man
Barbie
" '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. "
You
Respect
Color
" 'Drag Race' is sort of like trying to lift weights - like, 50 pounds when you should've been lifting 20. "
Race
Like
Trying
" Drag will always find a way to be weird. "
Drag
Way
Find
" 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. "
People
Best
Black And White
" I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing? "
People
Yourself
Makeup
" I always say you can be great at drag and not great at 'Drag Race,' and you can be great at 'Drag Race' and not great at drag. "
Race
Great
Drag
" 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. "
Real Estate
Mom
Me
" I didn't start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfilment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV... I never expected any of it. "
Selling
My Own
Thought
" I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman. "
Up
Woman
Caricature
" 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. "
Expect
People
Race
" I don't pull punches at all, and I write my material for adults. But if kids like it, they can come watch it. I'll never change anything about what I do for anyone. I kind of think that's why kids like me. If you're a teenager, and there's someone onstage talking to you like an adult, that's good. "
Change
Good
Me
" I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person. "
Really
Old
Club
" I don't think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too. "
Touch
Music
Own
" If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy. "
Silence
Know
Alone
" I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the guitar. But while I was finishing college, my drag became lucrative, so I had to pursue what was going to pay the bills - and doing comedy as Trixie was something that I was able to market. "
Writing
College
Music
" I grew up playing guitar in the late Nineties, early 2000s, so a very acoustic-driven pop-rock era, and then in college, I started listening to Jason Isbell and Kacey Musgraves. Then I really fell in love when I discovered really old country, like June Carter Cash - one of my all-time favorites. "
Listening
Love
Guitar
" I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing your wigs and sewing your costumes. You're doing everything. "
Start
Queen
Day
" 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. "
Beautiful
Believe
Work
" I hate drag. It's extremely uncomfortable. It's awful. I'm in a full corset and pads and giant wigs. "
Drag
Giant
Hate
" 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. "
Walk
Like
Me
" I like Aimee Mann. Her album 'Mental Illness' is so good. "
Mental
Like
Good
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