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" I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside. "
Mike Posner
Beautiful
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Girl
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" I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to. "
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" If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still. "
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Proud
Look
" I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music. "
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Working
Too Late
Late
" It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics. "
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Sound
" It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on. "
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Understanding
Art
Going
" I try to tell the truth in my lyrics; write good melodies and make hard beats. So, basically, I just combine hip-hop with melody. That's how I classify myself. "
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Truth
Myself
Try
" I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears! "
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Always
" Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge. "
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Early
Some
Grunge
" I think that's what makes my music different from other artists in my lane is that I write every word that's on my album, and every word comes from a real experience or a real feeling that I've either experienced or felt. And I'm very particular about that, and I take a lot of pride in it, so you know if I say something on a song, I mean it. "
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Music
Pride
Experience
" People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing. "
Mike Posner
Me
Songwriting
Singing
" I was trying to maintain a facade of infallibility, which is exhausting. Like, I used to wear tons of makeup because I had bad skin. I couldn't go out in public without makeup on. "
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Trying
Without
Skin
" I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift. "
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Come
Things
Shift
" I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world. "
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Than
More
Just
" Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don't be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn't work. You'll end up in the friend zone. "
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Yourself
End
Be Yourself
" If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. "
Mike Posner
Stuff
Over
Same
" I was a paperboy first, then I worked at a movie theater. But I was a caddie at a golf club, which I didn't like. The people were so bougie and racist at times. "
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Like
Golf
Club
" I grew up making music in my mum's basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she'd say, 'That's not work. Go get a real job!' It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion! "
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Work
Opinion
Music
" I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing. "
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You
Thought
Song
" You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing. "
Mike Posner
Love
You
Looking
" My favorite color is jungle green. At least, that's what it said on the side of my favorite crayon in first grade. I don't know if it's an official color. "
Mike Posner
Side
Color
Green
" When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want. "
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Writing
Song
Person
" Nothing means more to me than making the best music and me getting better as a writer and producer... I want you to know I work really hard. The bar is really high. "
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Me
Music
Best
" I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt. "
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Blunt
Like
Think
" I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle. "
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Struggle
Enough
Love
" I hated the thought of being just a songwriter. "
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Hated
Thought
Just
" If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny. "
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Really
Funny
Popular
" I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few months, I was doing shows across the country without a record deal, without a single, without anything. "
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Friends
Room
Country
" I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old. "
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High School
Audience
Career
" There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things. "
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Time
Happy
Say
" I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day. "
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Myself
Think
Good