The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
MacklemoreI wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.
MacklemoreWhen I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.
MacklemoreI've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.
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