Jhene Aiko Quotes

In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.

What I get to do is have fun in my house, by myself, and put it on the Internet.

I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.

I never really thought I would make a blog myself.

A lot of people think technology is a solution, but it's really just a canvas for your work. It can make good things amazing and bad things terrible. Facebook allows you to have access to mass audience really quickly if you do creative really well.

Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.

Mixtapes are very personal, and they describe who you are better than an album sometimes.

Just because someone uses Twitter doesn't mean they shouldn't use WordPress, and vice versa.

Now that I'm in the position I'm in now, I like to take all my creative ideas and put 'em on the Internet for my fans to interact with. Give 'em something to do.

The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

It's insane how much press my Instagram will get. It's weird, in a way, that I can dictate the agenda - but I love being able to have a say in all of that.

The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.

Music means a great deal to me.

I've been singing since I was five. It's my identity.

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.

I try to view my YouTube channel as a logbook of personal interests.