Mac Miller on How He Learned to Be Creative While Sober: ‘You Can Do so Much With a Day’

Mac Miller on How He Learned to Be Creative While Sober: ‘You Can Do so Much With a Day’

It was no secret that Mac Miller struggled with substance abuse. It was a significant aspect of his music, contending with the agony of deep depression and an unjust world. A mixtape like Faces or a song like “Perfect Circle/God Speed” depicted these harsher, darker moments all too well. However, around 2016, Miller had been putting his best foot forward to try to better his life. How he got to that point differed a bit from your typical story o…