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" 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. "

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" I'm such a Shangela fan. I think she exemplifies 'Drag Race' greatness. She's like the Tiffany 'New York' Pollard of 'Drag Race.' She's like a patron saint of reality TV. "

Trixie Mattel

New York

Reality

Think

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

" 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. "

" 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'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 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. "

" I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I look like Forrest Gump. "

Trixie Mattel

Look

" '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. "

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

" I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life. "

" 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'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. "

" Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status. "

" 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

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

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

" In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don't make it my place to - like, I'm not super confrontational. "

Trixie Mattel

Real

People

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

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

" 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. "