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. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6. – Mike Posner
I remember I wanted to be an athlete. I wanted to be in the NFL or NBA or something, and I don’t think I dreamed of being a benchwarmer. I’m sure I wanted to be the best. But I didn’t really ever think I was going to be a famous musician. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
I believe in the ethos of the remix, like Andy Warhol making a painting of a Campbell’s soup label. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
I did rap when I was a teenager – started rapping when I was nine, and started singing when I was 20. I kinda sing like a rapper would sing. – Mike Posner
If anyone has listened to my stuff over the years, they know I tend not to do the same thing twice. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
I’ve remixed lots of other people’s songs, from Adele to Electric Light Orchestra to Beyonce, so when my record label said, ‘Why don’t you give ‘Ibiza’ to someone to remix?’ I said, ‘Sure,’ because I like the idea of people reimagining art and making something new out of it. – Mike Posner
I think – for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can’t wait for everyone to hear it. – Mike Posner
When I went to college, I made my first mixtape, and Sean gave me three verses for it. That was a big reason anyone ever listened to my music. I definitely wouldn’t be talking to you now if it wasn’t for Big Sean. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that’s why I meditate now twice a day. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner
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. – Mike Posner