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" My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' "
Mike Posner
Television
Always
Philadelphia
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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. "
Mike Posner
Good
Voice
Way
" Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously. "
Mike Posner
Subconsciously
Music
Detroit
" I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day. "
Mike Posner
Music
Read
You
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Got
Gone
Most
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Light
You
People
" 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
Like
Golf
Club
" 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
Others
Try
Song
" I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "
Mike Posner
Painting
Believe
I Believe
" 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
" I realized I could do music for the sake of music, not the other things that come with it. That was a major shift. "
Mike Posner
Come
Things
Shift
" I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset. "
Mike Posner
Think
Serve
Minute
" People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing. "
Mike Posner
Me
Songwriting
Singing
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Radio
Past
Music
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Wave
Without
Time
" I love the fact that I don't have a real job! "
Mike Posner
Real Job
Fact
I Love
" In my short career, I tend not to repeat myself. I have no interest in redoing something. Sometimes that makes people angry, and maybe it's not the best thing for me commercially. But it's the best thing for me artistically, and it's the best thing for my heart. "
Mike Posner
People
Me
Angry
" A lot of my friends who I wrote or produced songs for came back and helped me make 'Pages.' It's better than I ever could have imagined. "
Mike Posner
Better
Back
Friends
" Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time. "
Mike Posner
Writing
Time
Music
" If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. "
Mike Posner
Stuff
Over
Same
" 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
Me
Money
More
" I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood. "
Mike Posner
Grow Up
Neighborhood
Lucky
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Rapper
Hip-Hop
Artist
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Truth
Myself
Try
" 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. "
Mike Posner
People
Life
Saying
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Me
Writing
Blessed
" Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often. "
Mike Posner
Go
Honestly
Very
" I take a lot of pride in my songs. "
Mike Posner
Songs
Pride
Lot
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Me
Music
Best
" 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. "
Mike Posner
Beginning
Music
Racial
" Some of my early musical memories are attached to grunge. "
Mike Posner
Early
Some
Grunge