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

People will send me tweets or texts, 'Yo, I'm at Red Lobster now and they're playing Mayer Hawthorne,' more of that kind of stuff, which is hilarious.

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.

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

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.