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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. "
Mike Posner
Side
Color
Green
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" I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Without
Skin
" 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. "
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Gone
Most
" I love the fact that I don't have a real job! "
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Fact
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" 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! "
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Work
Opinion
Music
" 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
Succeed
Realize
" 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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Love
You
Looking
" Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously. "
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Subconsciously
Music
Detroit
" 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. "
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Music
Pride
Experience
" My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana's 'Nevermind' on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip. "
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Car
Back
Me
" I'm kind of like a rapper trapped in a singer's body. "
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Body
Trapped
Singer
" I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes. "
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Kid
Grew
Doing
" I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift. "
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Come
Things
Shift
" When I went to college, I made my first mixtape, and Sean gave me three verses for it. That was a big reason anyone ever listened to my music. I definitely wouldn't be talking to you now if it wasn't for Big Sean. "
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Me
Talking
You
" My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' "
Mike Posner
Television
Always
Philadelphia
" 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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Friends
Room
Country
" I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world. "
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Than
More
Just
" 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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Me
Music
Best
" I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6. "
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Opportunity
Family
Me
" I cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough. "
Mike Posner
People
Enough
Me
" 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. "
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You
Thought
Song
" I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "
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Painting
Believe
I Believe
" I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old. "
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High School
Audience
Career
" I'm a big fan of country music. "
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Country
Fan
Country Music
" 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. "
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Others
Try
Song
" I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to. "
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Listening
Very
" I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. "
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Grow Up
Neighborhood
Lucky