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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. "

Mike Posner

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Money

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.' "

" I have my dream job. I get paid to make music. "

" It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on. "

" 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. "

" 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 think it should be socially acceptable for men to like 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt. "

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Blunt

Think

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

" I like regular girls. "

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Regular

" 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 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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Writing

Blessed

" I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label. "

" What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around. "

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

" Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often. "

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Honestly

Very

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

" I remember with my first album, I was so scared of messing it up, of blowing the opportunity, that I blew it. "

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Opportunity

First

" 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. "

" 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 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