A biography for Mike Posnerhasn’t been written yet.
“I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I have a very wide spectrum of stuff that I grew up listening to.”
“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!”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.”
“When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.”
“My songs are all personal.”
“I co-produced 'Boyfriend' by Justin Bieber and worked on Labrinth's album, so I've been keeping busy.”
“My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.”
“I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.”
“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.”
“I think - for a period of time, I did think art was there to serve me, but it took me a minute to reset.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.”