Quotes About Expression

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.

But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there's barely jokes in the video, where it's almost a joke in itself that the monologue is even being recorded.

I just like to make fun videos, I guess.

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Honestly, I was posting videos just to have something to do.

I want to put my harshness into rap videos and create a new style.

People who make videos bashing other people are like people who run into a public square and scream into a pillow. They'll get attention, but they won't change anything.

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

When I film my music videos, I always try to fulfill a part of my dream of being a filmmaker.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.

I don't really have hobbies. I paint. I write. I direct videos. I take photos. I'm a creative person. A normal day for me is doing all of those things. Sometimes I stay up until 5 A.M. writing a song because I make music. It's the same with writing.

My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.

I like to have fun with my videos and performances, that's the most fun part when it comes to the music. I get to show off my character.

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

I come from music videos and commercials, where style is a big part of the whole world. I've always tried to add that to whatever I'm doing.

I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos.

I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I don't take my clothes off in my videos.

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.