Quotes About Creativity

I write my own blog every day. I do the Twitter every day and the Facebook. Without a gap. I do everything myself: I load my own photographs; I sometimes take my own videos and post them.

If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.

Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.

When I started making Minecraft videos, there was already a ton of them out there. But when I started introducing the storytelling element, which no one had done before, that's when my Minecraft traffic started picking up.

I feel like the first 20 videos that I made were just so horrible. I think the worst one was probably more like fashion, though.

My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I'm not sure they ever can.

We're tired of band videos where all you see is musicians playing in some random church or out in a desert.

The path that Lonely Island took got us excited to think we could get somewhere legitimate by making little videos.

I do disagree with the way videos of my songs have been made. 'Afreen Afreen' is a very powerful song; it did not require such a video. The emphasis should be on the song. Again, I have told my recording company, and in the future, they will screen the video only after my approval.

I didn't take a lot of the videos seriously; making videos was one of the most tedious things that you can imagine.

I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.

There are videos I used to take at home, pretending to be a newscaster, interviewing the teapot or my house cat.

I be turnt when I'm making music videos, and then I'll just do a different dance in each one that I haven't done before, just because I'm lit.

I was into skateboarding, so through skating I kind of got into hip hop by discovering it through skate videos.

I know how to make myself hot. I can drop my own music. I can shoot my own videos.

I'd love to make short film videos pushing the conventional standards of what a country music video can be.

When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.

But I really like our experimental, performance and monologue videos, where there's barely jokes in the video, where it's almost a joke in itself that the monologue is even being recorded.

I really would not be where I am today if I hadn't done those PUP videos. It just showed me so much. It taught me so much about music and acting and being your own boss.

Oftentimes people say to me, 'Oh I didn't know you could do so much with locs until I saw your videos or I saw photos of you at events.' So whenever I hear that people have been really inspired to experiment with their hair or their look because of me, it's very flattering and really cool.

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done.

Honestly, I was posting videos just to have something to do.

I want to put my harshness into rap videos and create a new style.