Quotes About Artistry

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

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

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I think Bollywood stars should stay away from independent music videos because this is our most personal and direct way of connecting with our listeners.

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.

I feel a lot of hip-hop videos are all about portraying a lifestyle that the artist doesn't even live.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

I always thought I'd look corny in the type of rap video in the club with girls and all that type of stuff. I just didn't think I could really pull that off. We always think it's more fun and better just to go outside the box and to use our videos to show cool concepts.

I don't feel as though I've graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren't compartmentalised.

Part of the reason I fell in love with dance so early was because of people like Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Britney Spears. When they would dance onstage and in their videos, that was huge for me. I lived for that.

All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.

I guess my job has always been to build the music, direct the videos, to do all the things that usually fall behind the scenes.

People don't realize I make records eight or nine months before they come out. I'm directing the videos; I have a lot of work to do. I'm very involved in all that stuff creatively.

During the '90s or the first half of the zeros, whatever you want to call them, I was just doing a lot of videos, and that was my only thing. I was super-focused on that.

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

I think you can make a gorgeous movie on any piece of equipment. Look at 'Tangerine,' which is a beautiful movie shot on an iPhone. You see so many movies that are impeccably shot but are vapid, and there's no audience for that except for other cinematographers who just like to watch two-hour-long music videos.

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.

Even if I hadn't won 'Drag Race,' even if I'd never been on, I'd still be working my tail off, creating live shows, magazines, videos, anything I possibly could!

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

I've seen that so many people have made and uploaded videos with my song, 'Bubble Pop.' I was inspired because many of them were even better than me.

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

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.