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" 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. "

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

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

" I didn't start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfilment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV... I never expected any of it. "

" 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've lost 'Drag Race' twice. I know how, with one bad day, it could just end. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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Distance

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

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Think

" I always say you can be great at drag and not great at 'Drag Race,' and you can be great at 'Drag Race' and not great at drag. "

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

" 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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Child

Comedy

" 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. "

" '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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Good

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Run

Someone

" 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? "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" When you unbox a My Little Pony or a Strawberry Shortcake doll, you were hit with a sweet, impossibly perfect fragrance of fresh, machine-made plastic oftentimes infused with floral and fruity notes to bring the toy to life. That third dimension of sensory experience made the toy so real to me. "

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Perfect

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

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

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Very