Mike Posner Quotes
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When you're a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you're writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you're an artist, you can sing whatever you want.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.
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I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.
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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 love the fact that I don't have a real job!
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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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.