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Mike Posner Quotes

I like regular girls.

– Mike Posner

I didn’t give myself enough love, so I was searching for it in other places, and it was a never ending struggle.

– Mike Posner

I love the fact that I don’t have a real job!

– Mike Posner

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That’s what I’ve been doing. That’s what I started in ’09 in my dorm room.

– Mike Posner

I didn’t really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words ‘Detroit, Michigan.’ I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city.

– Mike Posner

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.

– Mike Posner

You need to stop looking outside and look inside – and it’s such a good feeling. A feeling of love and that everything is going to be OK, and all you have to do is nothing.

– Mike Posner

I try to listen to as much different music as possible – I’ve always got music blasting in my ears!

– Mike Posner

I have my dream job. I get paid to make music.

– Mike Posner

If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack… so be it.

– Mike Posner

I take a lot of pride in my songs.

– Mike Posner

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.

– Mike Posner

I think it should be socially acceptable for men to like ‘You’re Beautiful’ by James Blunt.

– Mike Posner

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.

– Mike Posner

I’ve only had success when I’m not trying to. It’s that weird thing where if you’re trying to impress a girl, you’re not going to impress her. But if you aren’t trying to impress a girl, you’ll probably impress her because you’re not trying.

– Mike Posner

I’ll read on Twitter, ‘Do you still do music?’ Music is all I do, all day.

– Mike Posner

I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.

– Mike Posner

My favorite Duke player ever is Steve Wojciechowski. He called me one day congratulating me on my success thus far, and I was like,’I appreciate it, but man, please don’t congratulate me. I know when you guys start the season, you’re not just trying to be 10-10 or ACC champions, you’re trying to win it all.’

– Mike Posner

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.

– Mike Posner

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.

– Mike Posner

Just be yourself and be upfront about your expectations and desires. Don’t be ambiguous and play hard to get. It doesn’t work. You’ll end up in the friend zone.

– Mike Posner

I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn’t until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.

– Mike Posner

Tons of people inspire my music, and now when I do an interview, I’m scared to say who they are.

– Mike Posner

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.

– Mike Posner

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn’t love myself enough. But now I realize that when you’re an artist, you’re making the music that’s in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

– Mike Posner

Avicii’s been a supporter of my music for years, and we’ve been writing songs together for a long time.

– Mike Posner

I grew up making music in my mum’s basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she’d say, ‘That’s not work. Go get a real job!’ It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion!

– Mike Posner

I had an initial wave of popularity that, in time, crashed, and I slowly became less popular and less successful, and I had to figure out who I was without those things.

– Mike Posner

People like me for my songwriting and production, not my singing.

– Mike Posner

I stay up too late pretty much every night working on music.

– Mike Posner

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