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" My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity. "
Trixie Mattel
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" 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. "
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" 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? "
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" Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few. "
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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'm strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy! "
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" I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices. "
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" I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate. "
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" 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. "
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" I've lost 'Drag Race' twice. I know how, with one bad day, it could just end. "
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Day
Bad Day
" If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy. "
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" 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. "
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Go
People
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Look
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" Shangela and I are both the type of queens who will taffy-pull 15 minutes of fame into something solid. "
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Will
" 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. "
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People
" I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Out of drag, I'm a white guy with a guitar, which isn't special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge. "
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Michelle
" 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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Nobody
Want
Always
" I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline. "
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Old
Grandparents
" I love my life so much. I wouldn't change anything. "
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" June Carter Cash is probably my all-time favorite member of the Carter Family. "
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" 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. "
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