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Mike Posner

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“You know, we just have a call basically every Thursday. It's a free call. The community is free. And there's just people trying to join in the light. So it's about an hour or two call. We do music. We dance. We do breathwork. We do meditation. And people are trying to walk the path. We talked about earlier the path when you first get on is lonely. So we try to make a space for all those. Building a community.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And it's like, well, he's on the walk of his life and he has not given up. So, I'm going to do the same to the best of my ability.”
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“He wasn't there to get something from me. He was there to give something to me. And often these people that Think are challenging to us, they're there to give us some kind of gift.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“as I'm the only one left. He turns around, he says, wait. He darts across the road again, scaring the daylights out of me. He reaches in the F three hundred fifty. Out this little leather satchel comes back across Route 66, presses it in my palm. And he says, sweet grass. This will keep you safe on our land. Before I even understood what was happening, he was back in his car. He drove away the West the way I was going, and he put a fist out the window like this. His way of saying keep going. He disappears into the horizon. I'm just like you are now. I'm crying.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So my ego's going, oh, he's here to get a picture with me or something, right? He wasn't there for that reason at all. So there's more. And I remember this question that my friend taught me, if you're ever trapped in the small talk and you want to go deeper, ask this question. I said, if I pray for you, what should I pray for He takes a second and his eyes go down to the ground He said, Mike. Five years ago My father died from drinking. And three years ago, My only sibling, my big brother who was like my rock. He died from drinking. Three months ago My mom died from drinking. So, if you pray for me, Pray for my sobriety.”
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“And I meet this young man. I say, Hi, what's your name? He says, Rowan. We had a little bit of small talk. He turns to go back to his car. I says, nice to meet you. Takes a picture. Like spirit, or you know, it's telling me like there's more to this.”
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“Is cars. So these cars are coming at me. You want to be able to see them. So if they're on their phone or something and they creep over that white line, you can jump out of the way. So that's why I would always walk into traffic. So I'm on the left side of the road On the right side of the road, I see a Ford F350 pull over to the side. Now immediately I started to feel like this old not belonging fear. And it wasn't an angry person getting out of the car. I felt like a little two pairs of vans skateboard sneakers. They hop out. I see, I want to say a kid. This wasn't a kid, he's probably about 21. He was a kid to me because I was 31. So, this young man, and he dangerously plays frogger and crosses Route 66 over my side. I'm like, oh, gosh, please don't get hit, right? He comes over my side of the road.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I played little, little games. Now, going back to the reservation, so I'm on the Wallapie reservation. I don't remember what day it was. Don't ask me that. So I'm walking and I always walked into traffic. This way you can see that because the most dangerous thing actually isn't rattlesnakes or bears.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Instead of saying my goal is 24 and doing 24, these little things gave me just a little more juice. I play games with the days of the week. I had psychological ties with each day of the week from school. Monday, I hate Monday, Tuesday. I hate Tuesday. Friday, I like Friday. Saturday, I like Saturday. Sunday, I like Sunday because From high school, because Friday meant the weekend's coming. So I would make my day off Thursday. Friday is the first day of the week, even though it's the first day of my walking week, it still felt like the last day of the week because of these old psychological ties from high school. So I'm like, oh, Friday, easy. So I finished Friday. I already got one done. Saturday, I love Saturdays too. Saturday's done. By the time I get to Monday, I'm already almost halfway done with the week.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Now I'm at 16. Now take another break. Okay, so now I got 16. My next segment I'm going to do four. Already did two eights, so four is easy, right? So now I do four Now it should be around 1:30 p.m. I've done 20 miles. And every day I would say, now I'll do a victory lap. I do four more. So I would set my goal at 20 every day. I never walk 20. I'd walk 24. But this feeling of doing a more than I said I was going to do fueled me. Opposed to I'm doing just what I was supposed to do. So I would make my goal 20, I'd do 24.”
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“I'd start around 5 a.m. Do eight. I take a break. This is fun. I play games with myself. I do eight. I take a break. Down to another eight. Now it's around. Maybe 11, 12 in the night.”
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“Correct, correct. And so this is sort of, I'm in this mindset more or less. I'm on route 66. I'm near the end of my day, so I'm maybe on mile 21 of the day.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But this funny thing happens so the pain increases linearly. So every day is a little more painful than the day before, but your consciousness. The space in which the pain and your own emotions are occurring is enlarging exponentially. So, to put it another way, every day the pain gets worse, but every day you care less that you're in pain. Pain, it's the physical sensation is more, but it's a smaller percentage of your overall awareness.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right, we are not little flakes of dust getting blown around by macroeconomics or our own emotions or whatever happens in our life. We are creators. We're not just here to deal with what's happening to us. We're here to create our own.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Lesson number five is don't wait because he never got to see me. Step onto this path, both metaphorical and literal. And witness me being truly happy in the way I'm describing it now.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So now I'm stepping out of the water. And I got the And I got the happiness, but. I didn't have my dad anymore. In this form. Two years before I started this wild journey My dad got glioblastomom. Brain cancer And he passed away before I started. And so”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A goal is a funny thing, right? A goal is like this thing we place in the future and we think we get there. Are going to be different Of course, the goal actually means nothing is who you become on the way. And so I had become someone different. I'm not saying I'm perfect because I'm not. I'm far from it, but I'm not who I used to be. And that's where this true happiness comes from growth, this self respect. It comes from growth”
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“It was a little different. Like, I'm in the water. And I felt this strange feeling that I never liked. Be ever felt before. And the closest word I could come to it is happiness But I think it's the happiness that dad was talking about, not the happiness of eating the chocolate chip cookie, oh, this tastes good. The happiness that comes from playing a part in the evolution of your own soul. So that's when I learned this fourth lesson. I say true happiness comes from growth. True happiness comes from growth. It doesn't come from getting other people to like you. It doesn't come from accomplishing anything on the outside. It comes from playing a part in the evolution of your own soul and knowing, hey, I played a part in becoming who I am now and who I am now. I'm proud of. Because it's not who I used to be.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah After I learned that lesson before, which is your reasons to quit our excuses in disguise. So I decided I'm going to walk these thousand more miles. And I walked across. Colorado and Arizona and California. I get in that ocean, like you said, and this strange feeling washes over me. I expected accomplishment. It was an accomplishment.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct. Correct. It's not about whether other people say, well, weren't you already proud of yourself? You'd already accomplished so much. It wasn't about the stat sheet, the highlight. It was this calling that I knew was there. And it's you're going to take the call or not. And there's no book you can read about it.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And there was no way for me to become who I knew I was supposed to be. And to maybe have a chance to taste that second H that dad wanted, the happiness. than to walk that remaining thousand miles. I mean, this was straight from, we call it life, God, spirit, your higher self, intuition was like, I'm supposed to finish this. And even though on the outside, it looks like I'm not. You know”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so there's a part of me that didn't disappear, Oprah. The part of me's still there. You did your intro. You said, Mike seems like a whole human being. I don't know if that's true. I'm more whole than I used to be. But all of these little things, they're all still there. I just know. Not to give them the steering wheel of my life anymore.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was nice to not be walking 24. It was nice to be in an air conditioning. It was nice to be around other humans. Most of the time I'm alone out there. I really like that. And even though my left leg was in bad shape, the rest of my body was really enjoying the rest. Two, I got more famous than ever By getting bit by this dog on rattlesnake. Now, like, my last decade of my life, I've been clawing desperately crawling around West Hollywood trying to find whatever morsel of fame I can find and put in my veins. Then I walk away from it. Get bit by the snake and I start to get more fame than ever.”
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“And I thought, you know, this word anti-venon, I'm like, oh, this is a nice word. I think it's like a cure. You know, like tomorrow I'm back on the, they're like, no, this just makes it so you get to stay alive and hopefully keep your foot. So I got both of those things. But the doctor said, you're going to be messed up for a while. I said, how long? He's like months. I'm like, it can't be months. I'm walking across the mirror. He goes, I don't know what to tell you. It's months. You got bit by a rattles So I go home And I start to experience some conflicting feelings. I get sent home with a walker. And sort of an uncertain future. And this part of me that loved this part. One, because It was nice to be not in all that heat, Oprah.”
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“But this one, it was black Oprah. I wish I had that experience. I wish Avici was there saying, hey, Mike, it was all good. Yeah. It wasn't that It just went black. In the ICU And my legs swell the size of an elephant trunk. I go from walking 24 miles a day to now I can like barely I have a walker to go to the bathroom and someone's got to help me and make sure I can stay up I can barely walk so I'm like now like now right and they send me home after several days”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wish I did And maybe I didn't get near enough. I don't know. All I know is it went black. And there was nothing. There was no light. I didn't have guardian angels. I've experienced some of those things in other ways. Breath work, psychedelics.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Uh oh. Now, at this point, Darkness is starting to creep in. I was just gone. And then I'd wake up and I'd see, oh my gosh, I'm here to rouse snake bite. And one of the gentlemen said, I ran up the road. I got a barster. I called 911, and he was able to keep connection with her. And he had the phone. I said, let me speak to them. So he hands me his cell phone and I said to. The voice on the other end of the phone, I said to dispatch, am I going to die? At this point, now I'm realizing this isn't the beast thing. The voice on the other end of the phone said. I don't know, sir. I end up spending three nights in the ICU, and they have this thing called antiven.”
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“I didn't see it I never saw it. There's two ways to get bit by a snake opra. One is. You're messing around with antagonizing it I didn't do the others to surprise it. It was the ladder for me. Now they're saying we got to call 911. I said, okay. And then they're like, we have no service. Somebody”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I had invited my audience. I said, hey, if you find me, you can walk with me People would come from all over the US. And sometimes they just want a picture with me, no problem. Sometimes it was like a scavenger hunt for them. You know, like it would be college kids on a weekend. Let's go see if we can find Posner. Yeah. But sometimes it would just be people that didn't have anyone else to talk to. And I didn't really have anyone else to talk to either. So we would joy. I think each attempting to alchemize our Pain into beauty. So that particular day, there were two men with me, and then I have my walk manager. Who would go ahead of me each day? So there were three people there. And they're all freaking out. I'm making jokes. I'm I'm thinking this is like a beast thing, you know?”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Walked across this state, Missouri during a heat wave, and I walked across Kansas, I walked into Colorado, walked 1,797 miles since that first step. This pain shot up my left leg. And that's when I heard a sound I didn't want to hear. I knew what the pain was. I realized I'd just been bitten by a poisonous rattlesnake.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, and that's why I want. I want to share the lessons with your audience to go do this because. I'm laughing now, but when I had walked across Indiana, Illinois, and I'm into Missouri during a heat wave. And I'm into Kansas, and I could barely stand up in the morning. And for me, the spider web that I had got myself tangled up in in my old life, I had to go through this metamorphosis in a painful way. It was just my path. But it's not needed. Physical pain is not a requirement for spiritual growth. Sure, not. But in my case, it was my path. And I was in this place where my body every day would speak very clearly. Usually you should listen to your body, but it would speak to me very clearly. Stop. What you're doing is hurting me, Mike. But spirit was speaking to me even more clearly. And it was saying, keep going.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“About a made up version of the future that doesn't exist anywhere but your own head. In my case, what if I hurt myself? I fail. These are all made up scenarios”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Step one is take one step because these fears and doubts, they're not a signal that you're on the wrong path. Signal that you're on the right path If you didn't have them, you'd be playing it too safe. You'd be in the sandbox of your life. You'd be in your comfort zone. So now some fear like if a tiger came behind us, that's good fear. Yeah, listen to that.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When this lyric in one of my songs, I say, Don't think other people's thoughts. I was thinking other people's thoughts too. Like I'm going to ruin my career. And then lastly, the biggest fear of all is. What if I fail? Like, what if I risk it all? I hurt my body, and I don't even make it. So it's like, I'm not even leaving to walk across America. I'm leaving with a chance to walk across America. So I'm driving across and the gravity starts what I'm going to attempt to do starts to set in. But on April 15th, 2019, I stood off the coast of New Jersey. It was really important that I started in the water. I wanted to walk coast to coast, the saltwaterways are crashing on my back. I had my father swimming trunks on. And I took a step. Right when I took that step”
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“I'm like, it's a day just in Kansas, and we're going 70 miles per hour. And I have all the fears and doubts that I always had, which were, am I going to damage my body? And then the fears and doubts about... Of my agents and managers. I let come inside my brain.”
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“Now I'm going to announce to my friends, my family, my audience, I'm going to do this. And we're driving across the country. And it's like, I'm looking out the window. And it's like this thing just keeps going”
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“When you decide to change your life for the better, don't expect a whole bunch of people to roll out a red carpet for you or cheer for you often it's the opposite. And I think life is perhaps rigged in a way that we make a decision. And sometimes they test how serious we are.”
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“And it was scary right away the people i worked with in the music industry said you can't do this you cannot do this Why? You can't just stop making albums. You can't just stop touring like this career that you've spent all this time building. It will not be here when you get back. This is a career ending decision. But this is one of these obstacles that happens on everyone's spiritual journey as you start on the path and a bunch of people tell you don't go on that path even though the little voice in your heart is going this is the path this is the only one”
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“So he talked about why I felt soft. But there's another thing the person we told the story about, Tim Avici. Who I was in the audience, and I mentioned in the song I took a pill in Abiza, he killed himself. And I remember I was on the way to the studio one day, and my assistant said, Tim is dead. Now, here was this guy who had everything I wanted. And it clearly didn't fill him up because he chose his life was so painful that he chose to end it. And I got in my assistant Nick's car that day and we were driving to the studio and there was just one thought looping in my head. Have to walk across America. I have to walk across America. I have to. There was this feeling like my life at some point is going to end. This dream of yours that called to you, that's either going to happen in your life. And there's no more next year. He's gone.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you're supposed to become a man Now, I went from 13, then I was 31. I didn't feel like a man, even though I had a bar mitzvah. So I think that we in our culture now lack some rights of passage, especially for our young men. Even though I had attained all these things. I didn't feel that an adult. I realized, I think even though I didn't want to admit it at that time, my life was really about making it, one, making myself more relevant, more popular, getting other people to like me more and more almost maniacally being obsessed with how many people love me, how many followers do I have on Instagram, how many comments do I have under this Instagram post? When you really look at us pretty unhealthy, pretty sick. Yes, if you're”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Right. And so I'm Jewish, right? My father that we talk about, he's Jewish. Well, we have a Tradition in the Jewish lineage to have a bar mitzvah when you're 13.”
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“Few things So one, the external part of my life, like if you just looked at it on paper. Everything went perfect. I'm telling you, like, I'm a kid who grew up getting straight A's, went to Duke University, got a record deal before I even graduated My first song is a hit, even though the second was a big, still had another hit making millions of dollars. It was going pretty good on the outside”
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“One is I was drawn to it because it was so hard I knew that for me to have the growth, to make this shift of filling up this emptiness, to go from external validation to internal validation, I'm not going to achieve that by doing something easy or doing something I already know, going to the studio, getting another. I need to do something that challenges me.”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was a little better because at that point I realized hey this like Success It comes and goes So I have my first rise to success. I thought, oh, this lasts forever. I'm the man. This is definitely going to go forever. The first time it disappeared, I thought, oh my gosh, I blew it. It's over. And then the second wave, I realized, oh, this is my job. I'm supposed to make art. And this thing called popularity, it just does whatever it wants. And my job is to tell the truth in my music, in my art, and kind of not pay attention to that. So I was a little better, a little better”
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“There was an emptiness From a young age, and I don't know if we all have a version of that emptiness because I only have my experience to compare it to, but. This emptiness for sure has a giant part in me creating this story that if I get this fame. Emptiness will go away.”
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“Yeah, it was like this strange mantra. He was always beating into my head. I grew up in Southfield, Michigan, which borders Detroit. My parents are both from Detroit My father, like, he would always wait to her alone too. Like my mom would leave the room. My sister would leave the room. He'd poke his head back in. He'd go, remember, there's two ages in life. Health and happiness. Health and happiness. He's always saying this my whole life. He wanted me to be healthy and happy. In the healthy part, more or less came naturally or easy to me. But the happiness I struggled. From a very young age, I remember feeling really shy and... Feel like I didn't belong. like I didn't belong. I remember feeling accepted everywhere. Meaning, I had friends. I was in social groups. But I never felt like I was really belonged there. And”
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“You were looking at a Vichy. I was in the VIP section with Vici's manager. And I said, I'm going to go in the main crowd because I want to experience this show up front. I lied to And I was experiencing envy And at the time, I still drank alcohol So, alcohol and envy are a heck of a mix I wanted to do was, I wanted to go in the crowd and see if someone would recognize me. I was so empty. Someone that just, even if it's a stranger, someone say, Are you Mike Posner? Are you that guy who's saying cooler than me to just give me a sense of I matter a hit?”
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“Yeah, it's somewhere in the future. If I get it, I have this thing called hope. Now, I was hoping probably the wrong thing, but you still have the hope when you get it. Hope is replaced by disillusionment. So that's where I found myself writing that song.”
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“Empty. I thought, like, well, like, what's wrong? Do I need to get more of it? And I can tell you that achieving fame or success in the music industry, while not an inherently bad thing Did not change my moment to moment experience of life one iota Not one iota. And that was disillusioning. It was because when you haven't gotten the thing. You can still look forward to getting it”
2025-08-12 · The Oprah Podcast · Oprah & Music Star Mike Posner on His 3000 Mile Walk to Happiness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct. And so this is like everybody has something that they put in front of them in the future. That they tell themselves going to make them feel better. And so while the specifics of my choice, which was fame, hey, you know, I get that, I'll feel better. Yeah, that's singular to not singular to me, but more specific to me. It's not universal. But this action of placing our peace and happiness in the future is a pretty darn universal thing that we humans do. And why my story, I think, resonates with people is I guess blessed and privileged enough to actually get all the things. Got the fame. I got the attention from the opposite sex. I got nominated for a Grammy. I got the money. And I still”
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