Mike Posner Quotes
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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 didn't give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle.
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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.
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I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.
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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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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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I grew up in a city called Southfield, and it's one of the most diverse cities in the country. Just from the different socio-economic statuses and racial and ethnic groups I was around, I was around all different types of music from the beginning.
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I want to headline Bonnaroo. I just want to do it more than anything in the world.
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I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
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My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'
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A lot of people considered my career as an artist largely over. Two albums got shelved. But I've made music since I was a little kid, and for the majority of that time, I wasn't paid for it. So I will always be making it.
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I looked at myself and realized I had a lot of boundaries up about what I would talk about, what was private for me and what wasn't. I decided to just get rid of them. It was quite liberating.
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I like regular girls.
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I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.
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I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.
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Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.
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People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
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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 stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.
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I consider myself a lyrics guy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.