I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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

- Mayer Hawthorne

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

- Mayer Hawthorne

My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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?

- Mayer Hawthorne

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.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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.

- Mayer Hawthorne

It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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

- Mayer Hawthorne

I love doing things that people don't expect.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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

- Mayer Hawthorne

I just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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

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.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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

- Mayer Hawthorne

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

- Mayer Hawthorne

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.

- Mayer Hawthorne

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.'

- Mayer Hawthorne

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.

- Mayer Hawthorne