Quotes About Creativity

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

I paid for every video I ever shot.

My daughter, who is 7 years old - I have no idea where she learned this - she made a video where she's beat-boxing. We have no idea where the beat-boxing came from, but all of a sudden, there it was. Now we're launched into lyric sheets for every single song that is current. They're all over our house.

'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

I've cried multiple times after posting a video. So much work goes into each video that I don't know how I'm still alive.

Having built-in video recording capabilities for a game that focuses on user-generated content might be a very good thing.

I'm very conscious that a music video is beyond just a promotional tool for a song. It takes a song to the next level and it gives a song a new life.

I love video.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

I would love to work with Karlie Kloss and model for Chanel. And I would love to be in a music video with Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift, my two favorite artists.

Making a video is one of the most exciting things for artists and fans. It's like a payoff.

I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.

'Aatishbaazi' is extremely special to me as it's the first time I got to direct my music video.

For me, iPad 2 and tablets in general are really exciting from a front-facing camera perspective, making those short video clips where you're talking about where you are or what you're interested in, and your face fills up the entire screen.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

I love video editing.

No matter what I put out, somebody will be offended. I made a video on 10 reasons to smile, and it has dislikes. That should be an indication that there will be some who get offended no matter what you do. The best you can do as an entertainer or as someone who performs is to follow what you believe in.

If you're in it for the money, there is no way you will ever make it! Never. That's not going to get you there at all. I just made fun video with my friends. That's the key.

If an emotional song can be fit into a funny video, what is so bad about it?

I think I was just bored one summer afternoon, and I decided to post a little video of me singing and playing guitar out of tune.

I think afterall, a promotion video is a piece of work in it's own right.

Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.