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

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" I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person. "

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

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

" To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And 'Drag Race' is about doing what you're told and having it evaluated. I hate being judged. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm like the Justin Bieber of the drag world. "

" 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. "

" 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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