I love doing things that people don't expect.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

I'm trying to just drop so much music that people cannot ignore it.

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.

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?

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.

I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.