“I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins a...” — Casey Neistat Quote

I'm not an exhibitionist; I don't have a compulsion to share the ins and outs of my daily life with a public audience.

If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?

I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I've experienced and cultures that I don't know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.

If you type 'Salt Flats' into YouTube, you'll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won't find any that were shot in the rain.

Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.

As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.

In India, time is of a completely different nature. People there think 'So what?' about our compulsions. A cup of tea is only a cup of tea.

I don't really take time off between records; it's a compulsion for me.

I do have that compulsion to organize moments into a larger thing.

I will never have the willpower to completely swear off pizza or a good summer sale, but I'm working on realizing the difference between the occasional craving and the compulsion to mindlessly consume as a feeble means of self-medication.