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" 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. "

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Someone

" 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. "

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Heart

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

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

" 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. "

" I used to make everything myself. I used to do my own hair, make my own costumes, write my own jokes, and write my own songs. There were definitely some days where I had to choose between having tights that didn't have holes in them or having to buy makeup or something I needed for a show. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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

" Drag will always find a way to be weird. "

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

" My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad. "

Trixie Mattel

Child

Character

" 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? "

" I love that drag is a way for people to vacation in the gay nightlife, but... it's quite a different experience to perform for a gay audience than a straight audience. "

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

" 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

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

" 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. "

" I'm very business-minded. I think that's something that sets me aside from other drag queens. "

Trixie Mattel

Drag

Other

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "