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" 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. "

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" 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

Mirror

Black

People

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

" 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 think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are. "

Trixie Mattel

Love

Think

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

" 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. "

" I'm always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag. "

" 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. "

Trixie Mattel

Run

Someone

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" RuPaul might not broadcast herself as political, but I think she tries to make moves in American history by catching more flies with honey than vinegar. Rather than telling people to vote, maybe she'll do a mini-challenge on voting. She understands that you can influence people in a good way without preaching. "

" 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. "

Trixie Mattel

Sweet

Perfect

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

" 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.' "

Trixie Mattel

Best

Distance

" Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star. "

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

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

Trixie Mattel

Always

Very

" I'm very proud of my career. A lot of people get their career from the judges of 'Drag Race' saying they're great. I had to go and build that reputation from the ground up. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Shangela and I are both the type of queens who will taffy-pull 15 minutes of fame into something solid. "

" 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.' "

Trixie Mattel

Day

Opportunity

" I guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don't think I'm better than anybody else, but I really think that I'm hilarious and beautiful. "

" I've always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes. "