People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.
— Colleen Ballinger
I trained to sing well, but now I sing poorly for a living. That was money well spent.
I started out poking fun at this YouTube thing.
I couldn't comprehend why someone would film themselves alone in their bedroom and put it online. I thought that was so bizarre. Now I can't imagine not putting my life online and talking to a camera alone in my bedroom; it's become my life.
Anyone can sing badly, but to sing badly on purpose and make it believable is harder. I listen for the actual melody in my head but sing right underneath or above it out loud. It takes a lot of concentration.
Nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes with a YouTuber.
My audience is like my family at this point.
I love and enjoy vocal performance, but I also have a huge passion for comedy and improv.
I don't regret anything I've put out there.
I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.
I'm pretty sure I don't want a camera in my face when I am in labor.
When I was in college and reading music and doing ear training, I was a little more advanced than the other people in my choir classes. So to entertain myself and kind of annoy the friends around me, I would sing just under the pitch or just above the pitch.
With 'Haters Back Off,' I'm creating something that I want to make, and I'm not focused on, 'Is this gonna trend, is this gonna be popular?' I'm just focused on telling the story.
People ask me if I'm worried that I'm going to be stuck in Miranda forever. I'm not, because how could I complain about what I've been given?
It fascinated me, these kids who would sit in their living room or bedroom or kitchen and sing to the camera and act out the song fully as though they were onstage. Because a lot of musical theater kids... do that alone in your bedroom when you're a kid. But for someone to go and put that online? That's just so embarrassing!
I love every Netflix original series, because they're so creative and different, and they really believe in trusting the creators of these shows and in their vision and passion.
Whenever a hater said they hated something about Miranda, I'd do it more.
As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.
I'm very open with my life, and I don't regret it because it's what got me here.
I try my hardest with my live show and YouTube to make it appealing to all ages.
I've been singing since I was a little girl.
I'm always so terrified that tomorrow no one will watch me anymore or care anymore. Every day, I say that I can't believe this is happening. It's so crazy. Because of that, it makes me work so hard every single day.
For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.
Getting onstage and trying out all of my material and what works well with audiences and what doesn't, what works well in different atmospheres, has been the best training.
I definitely think we're living in a world or generation where we need constant gratification and adoration with Instagram and likes, and we base everything on attention.
The only reason I have any success at all in my career is because of the Internet.
I feel so lucky to have the career that I have. I can travel the world and be a goofball and make people laugh.
I travel a lot for work and have people waiting outside my hotel or call my room constantly or show up at whatever restaurant I'm eating at because I Snapchatted. It is a little terrifying.
I got a lot of hate mail, and that's where the term 'haters back off' came from because I got all this hate.
