Shane Dawson Quotes

I tweet myself and do all the Facebook updates. It started off with me wondering whether I was showing off and I was very careful about what I wrote.

I had a blog where I tried to be transparent while giving away nothing. I tweeted and Facebooked badly. As a writer, your 'voice' is your calling card, yet my voice was becoming indistinguishable from billions of other voices.

I don't think in today's world you can go too far. However you may feel about social media or the Internet or selfies, it's part of how we all live today. 'Vogue' needs to understand and reflect that.

The Internet is especially adept at compressing humanity and making it easy to forget there are people behind tweets, posts, and memes.

Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

I was asked recently about the fact I show my body more in 'Homecoming Queens' than I have in other things and whether that was difficult to do. I never thought twice about it.

The way people express themselves online, that's also how they express themselves in the real world.

Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people.

I always had a Twitter account. I always had an Instagram account. I was always active on it, always spoke my mind. To me, it's really weird that I got so many followers and people that pay attention the way they do. It's hilarious, actually, because people didn't used to listen to me at all. I used to be like, "Does anybody hear me talkin'?"

If you make the Internet, live on the internet.

I'm a young woman who lives in a world of social media; I'll post boring things too!

Don’t wear that boxy trouser suit because you feel like you have to. Wear whatever you want.

I think a lot of women can see themselves in me and a lot of people in general are empowered by seeing someone wear what they want, do what they want, maybe get criticism or get praise, whatever, but still continue to wear and do what they want. I think that a lot of people need that.

My parents [father Lenny Kravitz and Bonet] did exactly what they wanted and didn't let anyone tell them not to. Now, as women, we need to continue to do that. Especially in the age of social media, when everyone has an opinion and it's so easy to be influenced.

I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.

I think that Instagram suits me. People know I like to use it all the time.

Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It's crazy!

If you want to be you, BE YOU!

To have that mentality of wear whatever you want, be whoever you want to be, on and offstage. This is who I am.

Particularly on social media, there is that level of detachment, some people feel like they can say whatever pops in their head .

You have to think about how you're going to present yourself and want people, wanna show your stuff and who you are

YouTube was a way for people to hear me and for me to say, "Hey, I can sing this song, I'm not in front of you yet because I'm too shy, but here's how I sound for now."

It's a real message. Snapchat has put an antenna [on me] and the whole world has got to see me. You either like it or you don't. I've been blessed with people that like it. Again, I'm just being me. The key is to always be you. That's the key.

If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.

I don't mind if people look at me like I'm crazy. I'm just being me.