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

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

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weird look crazy humor

I love Monet X Change.

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i-love change love

I don't really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I'm like an old person.

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old person like music

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.

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weird look you girl

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.

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queen day you nature

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.

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me barbie mom real

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

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prepare expect best worst

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.

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nobody me you hate

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.

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moment you society girl

I've lost 'Drag Race' twice. I know how, with one bad day, it could just end.

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end day bad bad-day

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

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caricature dress woman up

I'm not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.

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good like i-can two

I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.

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them plan like profit

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

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mental-health support family health

I love my life so much. I wouldn't change anything.

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my-life change love life

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.

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looking child comedy love

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.

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queen me you style

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.

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good me you change

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.

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day moment time people

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.

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kitchen guitar learning country