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" 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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" 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. "

Trixie Mattel

Nobody

Want

Always

" I'm very proud of my career. A lot of people get their career from the judges of 'Drag Race' saying they're great. I had to go and build that reputation from the ground up. "

" 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. "

" 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

Run

Someone

" Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity. "

" '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. "

" I want to literally quit drag and go live in the woods somewhere and write music for my favorite female singers, like Miley Cyrus or Kacey Musgraves. I would love to be able to write music for them and hear these women I admire sing my songs. That would be like doing drag without having to get into drag myself. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different. "

" 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. "

Trixie Mattel

Walk

" 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. "

" If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy. "

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

" 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. "

" Katya and I, as a yin and a yang, we pretty much represent the entire, full gambit of talent, you know? Together, there's not really much we can't do. "

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

Trixie Mattel

Mental

Good

" That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really like to relinquish control. "

" 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. "

" Me myself, Brian, I'm a Midwesterner at heart, and I have this deep, bone-dry sense of humor, and I've found it worked to combine this Barbie with a dry, sarcastic man. "

Trixie Mattel

Myself

Heart

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

Trixie Mattel

Race

Trying

" 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 Mattel

Race

Serious

" 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. "

" Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few. "

Trixie Mattel

Always

Very

" 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.' "

Trixie Mattel

Day

Opportunity

" 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. "

" Dark comedy helped me survive. "

" Whatever is underneath all the drag, it actually doesn't really matter. It kind of just matters, are you a great entertainer? And are you nice to work with? Are you good at your job? "

" 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.' "

Trixie Mattel

Best

Distance