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 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'm very open with my life, and I don't regret it because it's what got me here.
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.
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!
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?
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.
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.
