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I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. -- John Mayer
I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. -- John Mayer
I know the heart of life is good. -- John Mayer
So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun. -- John Mayer
By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed. -- John Mayer
I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?' -- John Mayer
I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting? -- John Mayer
You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from. -- John Mayer
The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad ... -- John Mayer
If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar. -- John Mayer
The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't. -- John Mayer
There's so many inspiring people out there. -- John Mayer
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me. -- John Mayer
When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking. -- John Mayer
When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart. -- John Mayer
Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been. -- John Mayer
Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. -- John Mayer
I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am. -- John Mayer
Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason. -- John Mayer
I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care. -- John Mayer
She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed. -- John Mayer
I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' -- John Mayer
If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book. -- John Mayer
Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say. -- John Mayer
There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?' -- John Mayer
We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now. -- John Mayer
I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like. -- John Mayer
I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me. -- John Mayer
If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again ... -- John Mayer
By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone ...
But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on -- John Mayer
Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. -- John Mayer
I like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep. -- John Mayer
You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.' -- John Mayer
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment. -- John Mayer
I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday ... -- John Mayer
I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats. -- John Mayer
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good -- John Mayer
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. -- John Mayer
If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear ... .Nobody's music is the enemy of your music ... The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking. -- John Mayer
I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist. -- John Mayer
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.' -- John Mayer
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood -- John Mayer
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. -- John Mayer
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me. -- John Mayer
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. -- John Mayer
Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute. -- John Mayer
There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span. -- John Mayer
Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding
To a bride with a paper ring
And half of my heart is the part of a man
Who's never truly loved anything -- John Mayer
Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly. -- John Mayer
Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing. -- John Mayer
When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe. -- John Mayer
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day. -- John Mayer
I came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something. -- John Mayer
Waiting on the World to Change, -- John Mayer
I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female! -- John Mayer
Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you ... Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do. -- John Mayer
I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move. -- John Mayer
I am not in Us Weekly . I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself. -- John Mayer
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values. -- John Mayer
Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to ... we're slow dancing in a burning room!!! -- John Mayer
Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that. -- John Mayer
Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart ... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done. -- John Mayer
This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong. -- John Mayer
You look so good it hurts sometimes. -- John Mayer
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. -- John Mayer
I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992. -- John Mayer
God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all. -- John Mayer
I love being the center of attention. -- John Mayer
Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for -- John Mayer
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it ... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while. -- John Mayer
Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one. -- John Mayer
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. -- John Mayer
Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too. -- John Mayer
Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white. -- John Mayer
I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists -- John Mayer
I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies! -- John Mayer
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless. -- John Mayer
I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me. -- John Mayer
Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul. -- John Mayer
I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me. -- John Mayer
I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. -- John Mayer
Numb is the new deep. -- John Mayer
Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it. -- John Mayer
Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely. -- John Mayer
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through. -- John Mayer
The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation. -- John Mayer
I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer. -- John Mayer
I'm a good man with a good heart
had a tough time, got a rough start
But I finally learned to let it go. -- John Mayer
You love who you love, who you love -- John Mayer
Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm. -- John Mayer
When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage. -- John Mayer
I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life. -- John Mayer
I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool. -- John Mayer
I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above. -- John Mayer
A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring. -- John Mayer
How come everything I need always comes with batteries? -- John Mayer
I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. -- John Mayer
You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad. -- John Mayer
When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want. -- John Mayer
The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right? -- John Mayer
I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody. -- John Mayer
Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment. -- John Mayer
I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band -- John Mayer
Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations -- John Mayer
May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on. -- John Mayer
I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money. -- John Mayer
Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible. -- John Mayer
Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn't follow their dreams, and don't want you to either. -- John Mayer
It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself. -- John Mayer
All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. -- John Mayer
Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't -- John Mayer
I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough. -- John Mayer
I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians. -- John Mayer
I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction. -- John Mayer
How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw. -- John Mayer
And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night. -- John Mayer
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. -- John Mayer
Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak -- John Mayer
You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor. -- John Mayer
People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them. -- John Mayer
I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night. -- John Mayer
My hits are not hits. -- John Mayer
I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do. -- John Mayer
Today I finally overcame tryin' to fit the world inside a picture frame. -- John Mayer
The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions. -- John Mayer
I am invincible, as long as I'm alive. -- John Mayer
It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. -- John Mayer
I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel. -- John Mayer
I'm not an icon. Not even in America. -- John Mayer
I've never been a bad boy. -- John Mayer
I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly. -- John Mayer
Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind. -- John Mayer
Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have. -- John Mayer
Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time. -- John Mayer
I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve. -- John Mayer
Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care. -- John Mayer
I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community. -- John Mayer
Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe -- John Mayer
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it. -- John Mayer
My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed. -- John Mayer
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. -- John Mayer
Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn. -- John Mayer
I lost my head for a little while. -- John Mayer
Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. -- John Mayer
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive. -- John Mayer
If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it. -- John Mayer
I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen. -- John Mayer
Half of my heart's got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time. -- John Mayer
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. -- John Mayer
I'm very happy in all aspects of my life. -- John Mayer
We're still waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change. -- John Mayer
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons? -- John Mayer
Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs. -- John Mayer
I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them. -- John Mayer
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day. -- John Mayer
The minute hand moves faster than you think it does. -- John Mayer
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme ... For heavier things -- John Mayer
I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts. -- John Mayer
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. -- John Mayer
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain. -- John Mayer
I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life. -- John Mayer
I really don't want to be a hunk. -- John Mayer
I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it ... -- John Mayer
I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done. -- John Mayer
Lets keep the car in drive and leave it all behind -- John Mayer
Sometimes I get scared that I'm going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad. -- John Mayer
I don't have anybody telling me what to do. -- John Mayer
I just sort of lost my head for a little while. -- John Mayer
It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it. -- John Mayer
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. -- John Mayer
Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you're alive. -- John Mayer
I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. -- John Mayer
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. -- John Mayer
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. -- John Mayer
You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day. -- John Mayer
No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it. -- John Mayer
I just like collaborating. -- John Mayer
They read all the books, but they can't find the answers. -- John Mayer
It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you. -- John Mayer
Who says I can't be free from all of the things that I used to be? -- John Mayer
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them. -- John Mayer
I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible. -- John Mayer
There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. -- John Mayer