100 Quotes by Trixie Mattel

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

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.

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

I look like Forrest Gump.

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.

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.'

I looooove Jason Isbell.

Drag queens always base their personas on their favorite female icons. Mine was Barbie, who's not necessarily a human but is as iconic and beautiful as any woman. I started really pushing it because I hit a crossroads of, 'I don't want to look like a woman or a man. I want to look like a wind-up toy, a plaything manufactured in a factory.'

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.