I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Gary Numan had a huge influence on both my music and my style. He had his own unique fashion sense - that futuristic space style. It was out there.

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

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 grew up in the '80s and '90s listening to Public Enemy and Mobb Deep and the Smashing Pumpkins. I don't even know what it was like in the '60s - I wasn't alive then - so the Mayer Hawthorne sound is taking what I can learn from the classics, and blending it with my hip-hop DJ and producer background and punk-rock bands that I played in as a kid.

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

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.