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" 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. "
Mike Posner
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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 have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny. "
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" I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle. "
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" 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. "
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" I wanted to break into producing, so I would peddle my tracks and beats to labels. I always heard the same thing: They liked the music, but it didn't fit any of the artists on their roster. "
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" 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. "
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" Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time. "
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" People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing. "
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" I have my dream job. I get paid to make music. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "
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" I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up. "
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" There was a time when being loaded and loved and popular really mattered a lot to me. I'd say that when I was less popular, I learned to be happy without those things. "
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