Quotes About Authenticity

We are video consumers first and foremost, and we hate anything appearing in the videos that isn't organic.

Instagram is just a way of showing the world a little piece of what you're like. You're not really giving everything away - it's not like you're making videos every second; you're just giving a little picture of what's happening in your life. No one can really completely figure it out.

I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.

It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.

When I do videos, it's just myself.

If you watch Justin's early videos, I never let him say, 'My name is Justin Bieber,' and then start singing - he always just sang. And the reason I did that was I wanted you to feel like you were in the room. Or maybe you were seeing something you weren't supposed to see.

I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn't know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn't know.

I don't want to make videos that come out looking like commercials or movie trailers.

We take the art seriously. We take communicating it seriously. And maybe we took ourselves a little too seriously in the beginning. Sometimes I watch the videos, and I think, 'Yeah, you could've relaxed a lot in the 'I Alone' video,' you know?

Back in the day, I used to get really upset when people used to say that I didn't really make all my own things - like my art or my videos or whatever. I work really hard on everything, so it used to upset me when people would try to discredit me or say that I wouldn't have what I had without this person or that person.

There are a lot of coming out videos of people who are gay or lesbian, and they're so confident. But it made me cry because I'm not that. I don't know who I am 100 percent.

I always do my own makeup, hair, and styling, including in videos and on, like, album covers.

I never really set out to have people see my videos.

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

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 want to make silly videos.

It's really important to me to still spend time in the ends - I'm there all the time. I do my videos there, I still talk about it. It's important for me to be an inspiration to the youth of the area and not just leave now I've blown up.

I think the most important part of anyone creating videos or creating anything is just being genuine and having it be true to what you want to do and who you are.

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've met so many people in person who watch my videos, and the best thing I hear is when they say, 'I love you just for being you.'

There are tough elements of rural life of course, but I didn't put them in my videos.

Are all my videos a hundred percent real? Absolutely not.

I think I have more fun making jokes online and making stupid Instagram videos than I do in my real life, on stage.