John Mayer Quotes
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
John Mayer
I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.
John Mayer
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
John Mayer
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
John Mayer
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 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
I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.
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
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
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'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 hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.
John Mayer
I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.
John Mayer
Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.
John Mayer