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!

Oftentimes, when I'm trying to get inspired, I'll find myself just staring at the wall and let the fans inspire me to get creative.

I really tried to take advantage of my 15 minutes of fame. And I've gotten lucky - those 15 minutes have become several years.

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.

To have the ability to look back on the problems that weren't big problems after all is something I think we can all learn from.

Clowns are meant to make people smile. That's my goal.

I hope that memes jump out of our computers in the future.

I am obsessed with my viewers.

I try my hardest with my live show and YouTube to make it appealing to all ages.

I got a lot of hate mail, and that's where the term 'haters back off' came from because I got all this hate.

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.

As a vocal performance major, I went to school with a lot of singers who were cocky and not very nice.

I love and enjoy vocal performance, but I also have a huge passion for comedy and improv.

I feel so lucky to have the career that I have. I can travel the world and be a goofball and make people laugh.

Whenever a hater said they hated something about Miranda, I'd do it more.

My audience is like my family at this point.

The only reason I have any success at all in my career is because of the Internet.

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.

Nobody knows what goes on behind the scenes with a YouTuber.

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.

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.

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.

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?

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

I started out poking fun at this YouTube thing.

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.

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.

I trained to sing well, but now I sing poorly for a living. That was money well spent.

I've been singing since I was a little girl.

I'm pretty sure I don't want a camera in my face when I am in labor.

People didn't go on YouTube to get famous back when I started.

My fans have been so sweet and supportive.

I'm the luckiest girl in the world.

I have a whole new perspective on pregnancy and motherhood now that I'm experiencing it. Just because it's so hard and so confusing and so exciting. Women are so amazing that their bodies can do this and that they're strong enough to do this. I can't believe almost every woman goes through this, because it's so hard.

The fact that I went from making a minute-and-a-half video in my bedroom to doing an hour-and-a-half live show is just crazy.

Miranda is extremely tacky. I personally want to edit my videos well, but I have to keep Miranda's character in mind, so there are bad angles, flashy cuts, and sparkles everywhere.

Miranda, my character, cannot sing, cannot act, and is really inappropriate.

I have no hard feelings towards Disneyland. I love Disneyland so much. I want to go every day. I loved every single day that I worked there.

My brain is a pretty intense, wacky place, and that's kind of where Miranda lives. But that's why I like the rest of my life and my stuff to be more clean, white, and simple without a lot of clutter.

I have a lot of photos of my grandparents - they're my heroes, even though they've passed away. They were always happy, positive, loving to everyone they met, and a huge inspiration to me and the reason I do what I do.

I've spent 10 years checking my analytics on my end to see what people were talking about and what they like.

Fans like to give me things they think Miranda would like.

On YouTube, I've stayed very limited with what I've been willing to share, so it's been very surface-level with Miranda.

The things that I gravitate toward in film and TV are things that make me laugh but then break my heart.

There are a lot of people who don't respect what I do.

Miranda's this girl that everyone's just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her.

The thing I needed to learn about Miranda was where her motivation comes from when she gets upset. There's been a few times where Miranda's a brat or crying online, and it seems very surface level, and I think that I needed to learn where her insecurities came from, because online she just comes across as kind of bratty.

I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.

My favorite movies were 'Singin' in the Rain' and stuff that had a more classic comedy type feel, that more slapsticky stuff. It's the comedy I've gravitated towards.

It's been hard being on the Internet and not being respected by people in Hollywood.