Video Quotes

I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn’t support the brand or it doesn’t make sense for the song, then it will never work.

Compared to a lot of artists, I’m usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

I’ve never made a video where I didn’t talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment.

My favorite makeup look was for my ‘Eyes Wide Open’ video done by Torsten Witte. It was so dramatic and definitely captured the magic of the video.

I’ve always loved music videos – I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam.

You can’t always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this very ironic, self-conscious way. That only takes you so far.

It’s not about what hits Billboard or how many views you got on a video. It’s about copies sold. It’s about streams, you know?

I’m a big video game fan.

Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever.