Mayer Hawthorne Quotes

I worked with Jim James on my film 'I'm Not There' - he sang 'Goin' to Acapulco' with Calexico backing him up. We just hit it off, and it's such a beautiful moment in that film.

It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

I've worked with a lot of people on music and often times those things don't work out.

I really had a great time working with 'Modest Mouse,' just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

I wrote a song with Ed Sheeran that was kind of spontaneous.

Taylor Goldsmith and I hit it off big time, and so we started writing some songs together.

It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.

For me, that first album, there was a lot of fun stuff.

The Pavarotti and Galway albums were a lot of fun because I got to work with two of the best 'voices' in the world.

I'm lucky to be collaborating with a lot of great songwriters/producers - and it's all about chemistry!

I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well.

Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

I'm a fan of Bjork, a fan of Premier, you know, those are the first two names that come to my mind. You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

I'm in this music duo called Moors.

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in 'Sugar Money,' no matter what, are part of my family and they always got something to do with me, and I don't care if they just hang out with me.

I'd like to do something with Bruno Mars if we ever got the opportunity.