SHANE DAWSON

I'd wanted to be a director since I was five and had been making videos since I was a kid. Then YouTube came around during high school. I was making videos, and it was just a place to put them, like storage.

It's fun to be around people who don't think I'm creepy for making videos in my bedroom on the Internet.

YouTube has a stigma about only kids watching it. That's true. It is mostly kids and teenagers who watch it. But I've never made videos for teenagers. They should not be watching my videos.

It sounds super cliche, but staying true to yourself and what you are works.

I have kind of a thick skin.

I'm proud that I don't make crazy jokes anymore.

On YouTube, you know, if you say something, you know, that triggers somebody, it becomes a whole controversy, a whole thing - and all the comments and everybody's upset, whereas a book, there's no comment section. There's no - there's nowhere for the audience to, you know, get mad at you for saying something.

Love who you want to love. Life is short. Nobody's going to hate you for it.

I'm not saying that I don't like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I'm saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.

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 think Jake Paul doesn't know who I am.

I'm just an innocent guy with a dirty mouth, I guess.

I love podcasts, so I thought I'd try one.

I think competition turns people into what they normally wouldn't be.

For the record, I don't really hate myself, but I do hate the way I portray myself online.

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

I started pitching shows and sold a show, 'Losin It,' about my Jenny Craig days. It never was made. I think it didn't work, partially because I didn't write it.

I can honestly say that I am open to love in any way. I guess that makes me bisexual.

I want to know the psychology of a YouTuber... do you think, to be a YouTuber, you have to have something off?

I didn't think I could pull off a novel.

Not everybody is either gay or straight.

'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy.

Howard Stern is one of my idols.

I thought I'd be on TV and movies - that's what I really wanted - and I can't believe I didn't need to do that. I did it on my own with just me and my camera. That's very, very weird.

Make the videos that you want to watch. Don't think about who is going to be upset or offended.