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" 'Drag Race' is sort of like trying to lift weights - like, 50 pounds when you should've been lifting 20. "

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" 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.' "

" I'm not a competitor by nature, and I'm certainly not used to being evaluated. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" One of my trophies of 'Drag Race' is getting to meet Katya. "

" I'm most proud of my career as a touring comedian and musician. I love doing television, I love selling records, but when I'm at these venues with hundreds of people, and they're all sitting listening to my music and my jokes, I feel like I could die that day, and I would be happy. "

" I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline. "

" With Trixie specifically, on the one hand, it's a celebration of femininity. It's that moment when you're playing Pretty Pretty Princess, and there's also, this is what society says a girl looks like, the amount of makeup I wear and the humongous blond wigs. "

" With Trixie, people like that I look like this fabricated painted creation, but all my comedy and my songs come from a place of reality. It's like the man behind the curtain - it's the crying clown - that's what works for people with Trixie. It's the dichotomy of someone looking like a toy but then, you know, speaking and singing like a real boy. "

" 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.' "

" Dark comedy helped me survive. "

" 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. "

" Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers. "

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

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" I looooove Jason Isbell. "

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" Trixie is like a hyper-feminine child's toy who has it all. I love looking like I'm from Toys 'R Us but serving off-color comedy. "

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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. "