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" Drag queens always base their personas on their favorite female icons. Mine was Barbie, who's not necessarily a human but is as iconic and beautiful as any woman. I started really pushing it because I hit a crossroads of, 'I don't want to look like a woman or a man. I want to look like a wind-up toy, a plaything manufactured in a factory.' "

" 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'm strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy! "

" I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma's kitchen is probably my fondest memories I'll ever have. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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'm not a competitor by nature, and I'm certainly not used to being evaluated. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think people are slowly realizing that don't have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they're realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn't make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "