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" June Carter Cash is probably my all-time favorite member of the Carter Family. "
Trixie Mattel
Family
Member
June
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" 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. "
Trixie Mattel
Start
Queen
Day
" '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. "
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You
Respect
Color
" I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag. "
Trixie Mattel
Drag
Myself
Mean
" 'All Stars' is a weird game. The rules are weird. However, I think 'All Stars' mirrors the real industry much more closely than normal seasons of 'Drag Race' do. In the real world of entertainment, it really is about the impressions you leave on your brothers and sisters in the room, and that's kind of what it is about. "
Trixie Mattel
Stars
Think
Game
" Some of my favorite drag queens are women. "
Trixie Mattel
Drag
Favorite
Queens
" 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. "
Trixie Mattel
Know
Moment
Live
" People don't realize 'Drag Race' is a certain percent competition, but it's also a game show. There's a certain amount of throwing dice and spinning wheels, and there are twists and turns all the time. Part of it is also having the right idea and pulling the right look together that day. We're all making choices in the moment. "
Trixie Mattel
Together
Time
Moment
" I love my life so much. I wouldn't change anything. "
Trixie Mattel
Anything
Change
Life
" 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
Me
Heart
" 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
Like
Race
Serious
" Some people say that 'Drag Race' is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it's about shaking RuPaul down for her money. "
Trixie Mattel
Say
Race
People
" I remember seeing RuPaul in 'The Brady Bunch Movie,' when she says to Jan, 'Girl, you better work.' And I froze it in my mind forever. "
Trixie Mattel
You
Work
Remember
" I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever. "
Trixie Mattel
Town
Family
Forever
" 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
Look
Back
You
" 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. "
Trixie Mattel
People
Singing
Reality
" 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. "
Trixie Mattel
Day
Lipstick
Political
" People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life. "
Trixie Mattel
Tell
Walk
Daily
" I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped.' That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for 'Beautiful' existed, so obviously I was affected. "
Trixie Mattel
Music
Remember
Amazing
" 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. "
Trixie Mattel
Myself
Choose
Hair
" Drag will always find a way to be weird. "
Trixie Mattel
Drag
Way
Find
" I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are. "
Trixie Mattel
Love
More
Think
" I looooove Jason Isbell. "
Trixie Mattel
Jason
" I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory. "
Trixie Mattel
Factory
Look
Made
" I'm very business-minded. I think that's something that sets me aside from other drag queens. "
Trixie Mattel
Me
Drag
Other
" One of my trophies of 'Drag Race' is getting to meet Katya. "
Trixie Mattel
Meet
Race
Drag
" 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. "
Trixie Mattel
Crazy
Always
Bank
" I look like Forrest Gump. "
Trixie Mattel
Look
Like
" 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? "
Trixie Mattel
You
Job
Work
" If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy. "
Trixie Mattel
Silence
Know
Alone
" 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
Go
People