Words matter. These are the best Trixie Mattel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
I don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.
Shangela and I are both the type of queens who will taffy-pull 15 minutes of fame into something solid.
‘Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
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.
‘Drag Race’ doesn’t claim to represent drag as a whole. ‘Drag Race’ is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other’s art and who your real identity is – name, gender, hair color, anything.
I look like Forrest Gump.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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.
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.
I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
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.
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.
Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It’s closed very few.
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.
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 an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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.
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.’
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.
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 John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
I don’t dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.
I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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 like the Justin Bieber of the drag world.
People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
I’ve always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge.
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 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.
Most drag queens, they put on music like it’s a costume. It’s not in their bones. It’s not in their background.
I’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
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.
I looooove Jason Isbell.
I don’t pull punches at all, and I write my material for adults. But if kids like it, they can come watch it. I’ll never change anything about what I do for anyone. I kind of think that’s why kids like me. If you’re a teenager, and there’s someone onstage talking to you like an adult, that’s good.
I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash – a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.
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.
Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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 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.
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?
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.
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.
Northern Wisconsin, where I’m from, is so ridiculously rural.
I love Monet X Change.
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.
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 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 don’t expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, ‘I love ‘Drag Race,’ and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.’ Not necessarily an obvious crossover.
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.
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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