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" 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. "

Mike Posner

Love

Great

Nice

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" 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. "

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Party

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

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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 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. "

" If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" From what I understand about Shakespeare - which isn't a lot - there was no copyright law when he was writing. He sampled at will, and it wasn't seen as a bad thing. "

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Writing

Will

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

" It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics. "

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Rapper

Sound

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

Mike Posner

Than

Just

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I like regular girls. "

Mike Posner

Regular

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" You need to stop looking outside and look inside - and it's such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing. "

" I'm a big fan of country music. "

" I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing. "

" 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'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day. "