I’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
I hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
Trixie Mattel
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.’
Trixie Mattel
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
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
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.
Trixie Mattel
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
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.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
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
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.
Trixie Mattel
I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
Out of drag, I’m a white guy with a guitar, which isn’t special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.
Trixie Mattel
I don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.
Trixie Mattel
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
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.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.
Trixie Mattel
Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and ‘Drag Race’ is a family, and we support our family members through anything.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.
Trixie Mattel
Drag will always find a way to be weird.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
Trixie Mattel
I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it’s how I deal with things. It’s wonderful.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
Trixie Mattel
One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
Trixie Mattel
Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
Trixie Mattel
Dark comedy helped me survive.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
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
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.
Trixie Mattel
As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.
Trixie Mattel
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
Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
Trixie Mattel
My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
Me myself, Brian, I’m a Midwesterner at heart, and I have this deep, bone-dry sense of humor, and I’ve found it worked to combine this Barbie with a dry, sarcastic man.
Trixie Mattel
I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
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.
Trixie Mattel
I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
Trixie Mattel