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 just want to have fun and party with everyone around the world. That's the only rule, to have fun.
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.
'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.
I think I find new idols every day - someone that says something really inspiring, is successful, has character.
I don't mind having a big butt - they're back in style. But I do a lot of squats to make sure my booty's not dragging on the ground.
I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.
Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.
I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.
When you have a life-threatening illness like cancer, and you're faced with the alternative, it gives doing whatever it is you do a much sweeter taste.
As a songwriter, oddly enough, my influences were people like Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, and Buddy Holly. Some psychedelic stuff, too.
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.
I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.
A newspaper that you're not reading can be used for anything; and the same people didn't think it was immoral to wrap their garbage in newspaper.
I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.
It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.
I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.
