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

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

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" Nowhere on earth has more soul than Detroit. "

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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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" 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 really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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 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. "

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

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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 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 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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" Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy. "

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

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

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