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" Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. "
Mayer Hawthorne
Guitar
Play
Drums
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" Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut. "
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" I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me. "
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" I've been really lucky to have had my fair share of relationships over the years and experiences to draw from. But I would say that I generally am not the one doing the heartbreaking. "
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" I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records. "
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" 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 me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot. "
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" 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 come. I guess I just attribute the lack of hate to people hearing the music and hearing how much I genuinely love it. "
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" A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble. "
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" 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.' "
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Beat
Punch
" 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 to. For whatever reason, that seems to get 'em excited. The DJ, everyone always says the DJ gets all the chicks, but that's never been my experience. "
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Think
" I love doing things that people don't expect. "
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" I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously. "
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Fun
" 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. "
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Grow
Up
You
" Barry White, Smokey Robinson and Curtis Mayfield are big influences for me. But I'm also a metal head. I was in a bunch of punk rock bands. The Bee Gees, hip-hop and the Beach Boys are just as much of an influence on me as Smokey. "
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Beach
Hip-Hop
Influence
" My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things. "
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New
New Things
Intentions
" Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever. "
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Forget
People
Never Forget
" I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun. "
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Have Fun
Only
World
" With any cover, I like to choose songs that affected me strongly already. So it's tough sometimes to take a song that you love so much and put your own spin on it because you get such a strong feeling from the original. "
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Song
Strong
Tough
" My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love. "
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Career
People
Love
" It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music. "
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Parent
Think
Music
" 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. "
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Fun
Life
My Life
" Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit. "
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Soul
Earth
" I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfalls that I've gone through then I'm happy to help. "
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Gone
Happy
Help
" I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs. "
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Parents
Thinking
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" I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with. "
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Expecting
Always
" I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world. "
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" I didn't appreciate Mick Jagger until I got older, and mainly because of the Mick Jagger swagger. He defined that for the world. He was bold and adventurous with it, too - just the ultimate rock star. "
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" Breakfast is the most important meal of the day and I definitely have a hearty breakfast before I do anything. "
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Before
Breakfast
Day
" 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? "
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" James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so over the top. The cape was probably the biggest part of his persona. He looked like Superman. "
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Superman
" I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios. "
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