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" I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body. "
Mike Posner
Body
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" I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside. "
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" If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. "
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" I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt. "
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" I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset. "
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" I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it. "
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" I love the fact that I don't have a real job! "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to. "
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" I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it. "
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" 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. "
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" All my music is autobiographical, and that's the reason why people like my music. They know when I'm saying something on a song, I mean it. It comes from a real place and captures the realness in my life. "
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" 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. "
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Without
Time
" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "
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" I try to listen to as much different music as possible - I've always got music blasting in my ears! "
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" 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.' "
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Man
Win
Me
" I came to realize that if I was going to succeed in the music industry, I was going to have to learn how to perform my songs myself. "
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Music
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Realize
" If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny. "
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Really
Funny
Popular
" I like regular girls. "
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Regular
Like
" 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. "
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Past
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" What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around. "
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Last
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" I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could. "
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" People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing. "
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" 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. "
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Scared
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" 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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" 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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" I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes. "
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Doing