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" I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do. "

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Mike Posner

High School

Audience

Career

" 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! "

" 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

Just

" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "

Mike Posner

People

Enough

" When you know it's a game, you can have more fun playing it. When things seem serious, you tend to take less risk and have less fun. "

" Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often. "

Mike Posner

Honestly

Very

" I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy. "

" I take a lot of pride in my songs. "

" If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. "

" When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself. "

" I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words 'Detroit, Michigan.' I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city. "

" I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset. "

" I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to. "

" 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. "

" When I recorded 'Cooler Than Me', I had been singing for like, three months at the most. I was just a producer experimenting with my voice on tracks, and now I'm, like, a really good singer in a legit way. "

" I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6. "

Mike Posner

Opportunity

Family

" I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside. "

" When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that. "

" If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it. "

Mike Posner

Sadness

Party

" I struggled with depression when I was in high school, and I remember thinking that if I got a record deal and got a hit song, that it would solve all those problems for me. "

" I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body. "

" I think I was blessed with this talent for a reason. No one told me how to write a song, but I'm just good at it, you know. There are a lot of other things in my life that I'm not so good at, but writing a song is not one of them. "

Mike Posner

Writing

Blessed

" My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more. "

" I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying. "

" I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world. "

Mike Posner

Than

Just

" I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music. "

" 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. "

Mike Posner

Music

Best

" I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason. "

Mike Posner

Heart

Love

" 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

Rapper

Sound

" A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up. "