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" 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. "

Mike Posner

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" My songs are all personal. "

Mike Posner

Songs

Personal

" 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 take a lot of pride in my songs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Mike Posner

Honestly

Very

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

" I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music. "

" I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things. "

" I think of the pop music that I've made in the past and hear on the radio as candy bars. And I was really good at making candy bars. "

" I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could. "

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

Mike Posner

Than

Just

" I hated the thought of being just a songwriter. "

" I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone. "

" I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes. "

" I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning. "

" 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. "

" 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

Golf

Club

" I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift. "

" It's not the job of the art to accommodate me and make me more money, make me more famous and get me more girls. "

Mike Posner

Money

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

" 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. "

" It's always hard for an artist from the U.K. to break into the United States. It's especially harder for a rapper because hip-hop is such an American art form. "

" It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us. "

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

" My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,'I appreciate it, but man, please don't congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you're not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you're trying to win it all.' "

Mike Posner

Man

Win

" 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. "

" 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

" Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge. "