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" It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing. "

Mike Posner

Saying

Words

Singing

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Opportunity

First

" 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. "

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

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Honestly

Very

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

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Than

Just

" 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. "

" It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on. "

" 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. "

" 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 believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "

" I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. "

" 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

" 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 consider myself a lyrics guy. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always had an eclectic taste in music. But what I try to do is combine these things in ways that others would never think of, like putting Bun B on an Elton John song. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing. "

Mike Posner

Songwriting

Singing

" I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old. "

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

" 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. "

" I did rap when I was a teenager - started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing. "

Mike Posner

Singing

Sing

" I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music. "