Quotes from Nuseir Yassin

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.

You don't have to take my word for it, obviously, but in making 1,000 videos, 98 per cent of them I lost money on. So I know a thing or two about staying true and rising above the money. Because if I was for the money I would be someone who'd put up Coca Cola in my videos left and right.

I don't control my life; my videos control me. I still love it because it's temporary, but I can't do this forever.

I need to keep reminding myself that I don't need a million people to watch my videos, all I need is one. If one person reaches out to me and says, 'This is great, I love it, let's be friends,' I am just as content.

I don't want to make silly videos.

We need more and more engagement with China rather than isolating it more and more.

I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.

It's amazing how much people want to meet the other. You just got to, you know, help make it happen.