"From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it"
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It’s also a savvy bit of self-mythmaking. Pop stardom depends on seeming effortless under scrutiny, and Houston is asserting a naturalness that turns performance into destiny. Not "I learned to work the camera", but "we clicked". That phrasing smooths over the labor of image-making - lighting, styling, rehearsal - and replaces it with chemistry. In the late 1980s and 1990s, when music video and televised awards shows were becoming the frontline of pop culture, being "camera-ready" wasn’t a bonus; it was the job. Houston’s line reads like an artist protecting her own narrative: if the camera is a friend, then the gaze can’t be an attack. It’s affection. It’s control. It’s belonging.
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Houston, Whitney. (2026, January 18). From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/from-the-beginning-the-camera-and-i-were-great-21905/
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Houston, Whitney. "From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/from-the-beginning-the-camera-and-i-were-great-21905/.
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"From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/from-the-beginning-the-camera-and-i-were-great-21905/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




