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" I think that Detroiters are some of the most resilient people in the world. "
Mayer Hawthorne
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" Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so when it comes to true soul, the guy obviously is the expert. "
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" 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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" I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne. "
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" 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 encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships. "
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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 consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor? "
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" I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I've always been the DJ or the bass player or the drummer, somebody in the background. I don't think anybody who knows me personally would say that I'm particularly shy or introverted, but I'm definitely not like Mr. Attention. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper. "
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" 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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" 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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" My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time. "
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" 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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" Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. "
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" I couldn't live in L.A. and not be close to the beach, you know, that's like the whole thing. I don't understand people who don't live by the beach. Why would you not? "
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" 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. "
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