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" I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices. "

" Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background. "

" I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best. "

" My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity. "

" Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and 'Drag Race' is a family, and we support our family members through anything. "

" 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. "

" As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time. "

" I like Aimee Mann. Her album 'Mental Illness' is so good. "

" 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. "

" Shangela and I are both the type of queens who will taffy-pull 15 minutes of fame into something solid. "

" I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites. "

" Northern Wisconsin, where I'm from, is so ridiculously rural. "

" I looooove Jason Isbell. "

" I'm like the Justin Bieber of the drag world. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge. "

" I 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. "

" I lived deep in the country in northern Wisconsin. I didn't have any neighbors or anything, so in the summers, I played guitar for hours and hours every day until I was about 18. I never thought about combining it with drag, 'cause to me, well, drag queens don't play guitar. Now I'm like, 'You idiot, that's an opportunity.' "

" I'm strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy! "

" I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are. "

" June Carter Cash is probably my all-time favorite member of the Carter Family. "

" 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.' "

" I've always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes. "

" RuPaul might not broadcast herself as political, but I think she tries to make moves in American history by catching more flies with honey than vinegar. Rather than telling people to vote, maybe she'll do a mini-challenge on voting. She understands that you can influence people in a good way without preaching. "

" 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. "

" Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it's how I deal with things. It's wonderful. "