I Grew Up In Ann Arbor, About

I Don't Want Kids Listening To My Music Thinking It's For Their Parents. I Want Them To Feel It's Theirs.

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 Was Really Fortunate Growing Up To Have A Broad Musical Education. My Parents Listened To All Kinds Of Music, Rock, Soul, Motown, Jazz, Frank Sinatra, Everything.

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'm Trying To Just Drop So Much Music That People Cannot Ignore It.