I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I was really fortunate growing up to have a broad musical education. My parents listened to all kinds of music, rock, soul,… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously,… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it.… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Everybody comments that I'm white. I'm surprised I haven't gotten more criticism for it. I'm always expecting any day now it's gonna… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls really relate… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Barry White is my musical hero. He was the guy who you danced to in the club and then when you took your lady… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time. — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
