Mike Posner Quotes
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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'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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It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.
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How can a song all about struggling with the afterglow of fame thrust someone into fame? How can a lyric like, 'I'm just a singer who already blew his shot,' give a singer another shot? I don't know... but it's funny.
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My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'
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Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.
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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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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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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 believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell's soup label.
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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 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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I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.
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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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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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If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.
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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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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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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 love the fact that I don't have a real job!
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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 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 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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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.