Quotes from 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 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
I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.
— 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 was really lucky to grow up in an extremely diverse neighborhood.
— Mike Posner
I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
— 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 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
It's like, we all grow up thinking it would be so nice to have hundreds of people falling over themselves trying to grab us, telling us we're great, that they love us.
— 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
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