Quotes About Expression

My dad was a professional musician; my mom played, too, but just for fun. All my siblings played. The house was full of music books, videos, albums. I guess it's not surprising that I ended up becoming a musician.

My channel is really a positive outlet for people to come every day after school. I make my videos so that people can have something happy to turn to - a positive message. I'm making it okay to talk about stuff.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

My two favorite parts of what I do are definitely writing the music and then writing and directing the videos to support each song. As well as doing my own makeup and styling for the videos.

I write really visually. In my head, I'm constantly picturing things as I'm writing, so for me, videos are such an expressive part of my job.

Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.

I like big, flashy production and videos.

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.

Like any other creative person, I would make home videos, and I would make sketches with my friends, and I would make my own movies, so I have some love for the creative process.

Freak' was a fan favorite on the Dangerous Woman Tour, so I'm so excited to see everyone creating their own videos of the dance routine and showing their freaky side.

Shooting videos is the most intense, full-body experience.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

The biggest idea of a good time for me is making the Batman videos that we did. That is my ideal day. That is exactly what I want to be doing... I like doing cartoons. I like writing things.

Most of my videos are 60 seconds long. They can only fit about 200 words. There are a lot of things that I wanted to discuss about a given topic - my feelings behind it, how I ended up making a video, what happened before and after - that I couldn't because I had this 60-second limit.

I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.

I drop videos off the cuff... I don't stop.

I don't want to make silly videos.

When I sit down and make videos, my No. 1 thought is that I want to make a video that I want to watch.

From the very beginning, our driving passion has been simple: to create and foster a platform where people across the globe can not only meet and interact, but share music, videos, thoughts and ideas.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

I think kind of what you see in the videos is true to me, if not maybe a slightly heightened version of my real self.

There's an underlying sense with 'Tongue' that... it's really... it's real. I mean that in the sense that now I'm not afraid to touch on relationships and on my sexuality in my videos.

I'd love to be able to sing. I make videos in my car when I'm driving back and forward between Manchester and Essex, and I try my hardest to sing well but it just doesn't work out.