Kian Lawley Quotes

My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.

I'm just like, a girl making videos, living her life.

I want to stick with movies, but I also want to stick with YouTube. I'm never going to give up YouTube. I'm never going to stop making videos for the people who continue to watch them. That's my home base. That's what I love; that's what I know.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

I never really think about what I have to do to stick to my image. I just follow what I like to do. Sometimes it's glamorous, sometimes it's not.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

I want to make videos that, if I didn't know myself, I'd want to watch. As long as I'm making myself laugh, I'm usually having a good time. That's how I know I've made a video that I'm proud of: I've made myself laugh.

I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.

There's something about YouTube, where you're not being anybody but yourself. You have the opportunity to start as yourself from the very beginning. From the very first video, you choose what you say, and you choose what's right and wrong for your presentation of yourself.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

When you make stuff from the 'you' point of view, you really can't go wrong.

I really don't want to be known as a fashionista. I'd like to be someone more than that.

With my YouTube videos, I used to edit a lot of my own videos, so I've gotten used to seeing myself on camera.

All I really want to do is play, that's all that matters. I don't think I've ever tried to cultivate an image. Everything has been on instinct. The flannel shirt and jeans, for example... those are the clothes I wear. If I wore anything else on stage, I wouldn't feel comfortable.

Often, we hide our personality and are afraid of bringing it out in our clothes. So, I think when people are fashionable, they are able to express themselves.

I just like to make fun videos, I guess.

Make an account, start uploading videos, and then be yourself; it's very cliche, but no one else can do it.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

Be you. If people like it, great. My music is honest, and it comes from the heart. I have never done anything to become famous.

I don't even really try to do something different. I just do what's authentic to me.

I want to make daily vlogs, I want to show my everyday life as much as possible.

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.