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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Time itself made all things rare.

Gender and the complications it gives rise to simply aren't relevant to the lives appliances lead.

A vulgar man, in any ill that happens to him, blames others; a novice in philosophy blames himself; and a philosopher blames neither, the one nor the other.

Can there be any liberty where property is taken away without consent?

I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

I let people say and write what they want.

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.