Mike Posner Quotes
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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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I was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.
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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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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 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.
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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 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 like regular girls.
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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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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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My favorite television show is 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.'
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I have my dream job. I get paid to make music.
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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 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 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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I grew up a hip-hop kid doing mix-tapes.
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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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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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People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.
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I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.
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Honestly, I don't go to clubs very often.
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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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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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I consider myself a lyrics guy.