Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything.

I DJ all the time, as much as I possibly can. I'll never stop. That's my security blanket, that's what I'm good at. I still consider myself a better DJ than a singer. I can DJ in my sleep.

Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit.

That's one of the most important things to me is that Detroit and Ann Arbor got my back. If you don't have hometown love, then what's the point?

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'

I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.

I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.

I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world.

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.

Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

Hip-hop was my first real love, one that was my own and wasn't my parents' music. Initially, I was inspired by hip-hop fashion. Over the years, I kept the hip-hop sensibility, but make it my own.

I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it.

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul, Motown, jazz, Frank Sinatra, everything.

I love doing things that people don't expect.

I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.

My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.