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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. "

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" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" I didn't start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfilment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV... I never expected any of it. "

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

" I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever. "

" My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity. "

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

" 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 want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory. "

" June Carter Cash is probably my all-time favorite member of the Carter Family. "

" My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different. "

" If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy. "

" I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge. "

" Some of my favorite drag queens are women. "

" 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. "

" 'Drag Race' is sort of like trying to lift weights - like, 50 pounds when you should've been lifting 20. "

" 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. "

" I'm such a Shangela fan. I think she exemplifies 'Drag Race' greatness. She's like the Tiffany 'New York' Pollard of 'Drag Race.' She's like a patron saint of reality TV. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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 grew up playing guitar in the late Nineties, early 2000s, so a very acoustic-driven pop-rock era, and then in college, I started listening to Jason Isbell and Kacey Musgraves. Then I really fell in love when I discovered really old country, like June Carter Cash - one of my all-time favorites. "

" Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity. "

" People are slowly realizing that they're looking at drag all the time. 'Mrs. Doubtfire.' 'Real Housewives.' Peewee Herman. Don't let calling it drag make you uncomfortable. "

" '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. "

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