Most musicians – hell, most celebrities – have haters and detractors in one form or another; it’s just part and parcel of being in the limelight. And after dealing with criticism for long enough, most come up with strategies and methods to deal with it.

John Summit, for example, explains in a new interview with MusicTech how he deals with negative online commentary, which, incidentally, he seems entirely unphased by.

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“I am very unapologetically myself,” he says. “And it’s not like I’m hiding behind a brand, so it’s really easy for people to talk shit. You’re gonna get haters no matter what, and as long as it’s a decent balance, it doesn’t affect me at all.

“It’s especially easy too, because you see the lifestyle, the partying, and if you have a job that you don’t like, and then you see me out there, living what it looks like to be my best life, it’s easy to be like, ‘Fuck that guy.’”

And having been in the game now for around eight years – releasing numerous chart-topping singles along the way – he’s now able to laugh off hate. “It used to affect me a little bit, but now I get more humour out of it,” he says.

“I’m living life to the fullest. That’s the way I say it,” Summit goes on. “The only thing is that, like you said, I haven’t been able to really sit back and look back on it all. But what drives me is that I want to wake up every morning. ‘Oh, I got this to do today. I got this. I have a purpose’. So, yeah, living a purposeful life is living my best life.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Summit looks back on his recent career highlights, which include releasing his debut album Comfort in Chaos, and playing over 220 shows in the past 12 months, including to a crowd of 20,000 at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

“I took a few days off after the album and after the big MSG show – but as soon as I was done with that set, which I’d been working towards for months, I went to the green room, and I couldn’t even celebrate because then I played a three-hour after-party to 6,000 people. So, yeah, I don’t know, when I look back at these vlogs I’m doing, I’m like, ‘Oh, wow, this is kind of crazy.’”

Read the full interview now at MusicTech.

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