Zitat des Tages von Mayer Hawthorne:
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.
A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.
I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.
I love doing things that people don't expect.
I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
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.
I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.
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.
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.
My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.
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.'
I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.
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.
Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
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.
It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
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.
I've been DJing since before I could read the labels on the records.
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.