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

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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. "

" I looooove Jason Isbell. "

" As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time. "

" 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. "

" I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities. "

" 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. "

" One of my trophies of 'Drag Race' is getting to meet Katya. "

" When I walked in on 'Drag Race' and saw Katya, I had no idea she was gonna be funny, because she was stunning. She had this perfect red lip, I remember looking into her eyes and being like, 'This is a woman!' Then she was really funny. She kind of presents normal, and it's a one-two punch with the comedy. "

" Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status. "

" For years, 'Drag Race' was gay people's best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn't know anything about it. Look at it now: it's like it's gone from black and white to IMAX. "

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" I hate drag. It's extremely uncomfortable. It's awful. I'm in a full corset and pads and giant wigs. "

" I lived deep in the country in northern Wisconsin. I didn't have any neighbors or anything, so in the summers, I played guitar for hours and hours every day until I was about 18. I never thought about combining it with drag, 'cause to me, well, drag queens don't play guitar. Now I'm like, 'You idiot, that's an opportunity.' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dark comedy helped me survive. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm very business-minded. I think that's something that sets me aside from other drag queens. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 love my life so much. I wouldn't change anything. "

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

" Drag is great way to get people to pay attention to me, but it's a difficult way to get people to take me seriously as a musician. So it's a weird Catch-22. It's like a gimmick that gets them to pay attention, but when they see my image, they're like, 'There's no way this is going to have any legitimacy to it.' "