My intentions with any of my music is to keep it futuristic and updated and be experimental and try new things.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

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

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

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

I was a hip-hop head. When I really found my own lane in music, it was hip-hop. I wanted to make hip-hop music. And I did, I made a lot of hip-hop music.

I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.