"Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life."
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"I moved to California when I was twelve and I got a video camera and made little movies because I didn't have any friends yet. I would force my sister to make these movies with me - which became my YouTube channel."
"I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic."
"Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released."
"When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story."
"The internet makes information easier to come by, but harder to control - think of the success of blogs like ConservativeHome and Guido Fawkes. I definitely think Parliament's website can be improved - perhaps it could have better access to video feed, include interactive features or have discussion forums."
"A good video can make all the difference"
"You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s."
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder... Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."
"Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens."
"Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?"
"I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things."
"The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us"
"Goat screaming videos are hilarious."
"Don't just buy a new video game. Make one."
"My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games."
"Music videos are like girlfriends. I'm constantly amazed on what other people doing"
"I bought all those [fitness] videos -- Richard Simmons, Jane Fonda. I love to sit and eat cookies and watch 'em."
"Because the Internets there, I have access to a lot of the legends, like Fela Kuti. I used to watch a lot of Fela Kuti videos, just to see how he performed. He inspired me a lot, actually, because he was a man of many words, many good words."
"If I hear a song like "Time After Time." I'm sittin' there lookin' at video and Cindy Lauper comes on singin' this song. I said, "God damnnnnn!""
"In terms of everything, I'm happy and stand behind my video. If you can't tell we had a lot of fun doing it and you want to nitpick - I don't know. That's why you exist on the internet and not anywhere else."