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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. "

Mike Posner

Music

Best

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Mike Posner

Man

Win

" 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. "

" 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 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself. "

" 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. "

" I consider myself a lyrics guy. "

" I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes. "

" 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. "

Mike Posner

Writing

Will

" 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. "

" I'm scared to give gratitude to the people that, if I hadn't heard their stuff, I wouldn't be able to make music. "

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

Mike Posner

Songwriting

Singing

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

Angry

" I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could. "

" 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. "

" I didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are. "