RudyRude
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I saw an interview where you were saying that you were in sort of a dark place for a while, and you had to get out of that. Do you regret saying that?
No, I think I’ve been in several dark places in my life. Everyone has. And I think it’s important to pull the curtain back on celebrity culture. I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he’s great. And obviously he’s very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naïvely, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do. He feels negative emotions, sadness sometimes, the whole spectrum of being human. That was an epiphany — there is no magic level of prestige or money where those things disappear. 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. And so I set about acquiring these things like prestige and notoriety and money. And I was pretty good at it, and I got them at a young age. And they did not get rid of negative emotions.
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No, I think I’ve been in several dark places in my life. Everyone has. And I think it’s important to pull the curtain back on celebrity culture. I really look up to Louis C.K. I think he’s great. And obviously he’s very popular, more popular than me. Years ago, I was thinking, naïvely, it would be great to be that popular. And then I thought about it and then I realized that, with his money and his level of notoriety, he has all of the same emotions that I do. He feels negative emotions, sadness sometimes, the whole spectrum of being human. That was an epiphany — there is no magic level of prestige or money where those things disappear. 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. And so I set about acquiring these things like prestige and notoriety and money. And I was pretty good at it, and I got them at a young age. And they did not get rid of negative emotions.
Mike Posner on ‘I Took a Pill in Ibiza,’ His Comeback, and How Burning Man Changed How He Felt About Music
<span>I wanted to be the most famous. It wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. </span>
www.vulture.com
