Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel

I'm an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.

Trixie Mattel
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
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
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
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
Trixie Mattel

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

Trixie Mattel
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
Trixie Mattel

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.

Trixie Mattel
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
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
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
Trixie Mattel

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

Trixie Mattel
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
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
Trixie Mattel

'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.

Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel

With Trixie, people like that I look like this fabricated painted creation, but all my comedy and my songs come from a place of reality. It's like the man behind the curtain - it's the crying clown - that's what works for people with Trixie. It's the dichotomy of someone looking like a toy but then, you know, speaking and singing like a real boy.

Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel

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.

Trixie Mattel
Trixie Mattel

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.

Trixie Mattel
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
Trixie Mattel

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.