Mike Posner Quotes
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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.
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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 cared too much about people liking me because I didn't like myself enough.
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A lot of people have trouble putting into words what my music is, and it's because of where I grew up.
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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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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.
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Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I'm scared to say who they are.
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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 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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I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.
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I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he's great. And obviously he's very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naively, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do.
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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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I'll read on Twitter, 'Do you still do music?' Music is all I do, all day.
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It's easier to make art for a society at a certain point in time with an understanding of what's going on.
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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.
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My songs are all personal.
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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.
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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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If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice.
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I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
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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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If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.
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I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.
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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.