Melissa Etheridge Quotes

I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.

All I ever wanted was to perform, make music, make videos.

Musically, I wear many hats. I'm the social media director. I conceptualise the videos, write the songs, do the press. I'm not a major label act.

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

I believe that music videos give us an opportunity as actors to play a different character.

I just make videos and stuff. There's not much more to it than that. I'm a musician trying to express myself.

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

Having a solo career is a funny thing.

Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say.

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell.

As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

I make the songs and part of making them is singing them. But what you hear is not me. It's the song. It's through me.

I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

I'm so crazy about making albums and singing and dancing.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.

I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.