Mark Ronson says he realised he had to cut down on partying or people would not take his music seriously. The producer and DJ, 44, said he “was drunk a lot of the time” when he first became famous in the UK.
He told Clara Amfo’s podcast This City: “I just think I was like, ‘Oh, this is cool, this is my life now.’ “And then I started to realise, ‘But if you do that all the time, then people don’t take your music seriously.’ “So, I just realised I needed to focus a bit more.” He added: “It was only two years of my life and I guess I never really hurt anyone or really bottomed out.” Ronson said the UK is the only place where he is recognised on the street. “It always is a re-adjustment like when I’m here because I’m walking down the street and