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" I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating. "
Mike Posner
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Me
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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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Time
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Look
" That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart. "
Mike Posner
Work
Acceptance
Community
" A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it. "
Mike Posner
Time
People
Artist
" I love the fact that I don't have a real job! "
Mike Posner
Real Job
Fact
I Love
" Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are. "
Mike Posner
Say
Music
Inspire
" I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears! "
Mike Posner
Music
Listen
Always
" I'm a big fan of country music. "
Mike Posner
Country
Fan
Country Music
" I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old. "
Mike Posner
High School
Audience
Career
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Friends
Room
Country
" In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart. "
Mike Posner
People
Me
Angry
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Myself
Think
Good
" I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt. "
Mike Posner
Blunt
Like
Think
" I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to. "
Mike Posner
Stuff
Listening
Very
" I take a lot of pride in my songs. "
Mike Posner
Songs
Pride
Lot
" I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don't think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I'm sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn't really ever think I was going to be a famous musician. "
Mike Posner
Think
Remember
Famous
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Like
Golf
Club
" Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge. "
Mike Posner
Early
Some
Grunge
" Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time. "
Mike Posner
Writing
Time
Music
" I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside. "
Mike Posner
Beautiful
Personality
Girl
" My songs are all personal. "
Mike Posner
Songs
Personal
" It's just about being honest. I listen to a lot of stuff that's out there, some of which I wrote, and I'm like, 'Where is that? Where's the honesty?' So that's what I want to get to in my music now. "
Mike Posner
Like
Want
Now
" It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics. "
Mike Posner
Me
Rapper
Sound
" I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room. "
Mike Posner
Started
You
Hip-Hop
" I've remixed lots of other people's songs, from Adele to Electric Light Orchestra to Beyonce, so when my record label said, 'Why don't you give 'Ibiza' to someone to remix?' I said, 'Sure,' because I like the idea of people reimagining art and making something new out of it. "
Mike Posner
Light
You
People
" I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world. "
Mike Posner
Than
More
Just
" I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body. "
Mike Posner
Body
Trapped
Singer
" I hated the thought of being just a songwriter. "
Mike Posner
Hated
Thought
Just
" Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously. "
Mike Posner
Subconsciously
Music
Detroit
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Trying
Without
Skin
" I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "
Mike Posner
Painting
Believe
I Believe