"I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thi..." — Mike Posner

I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.

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.

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.