John Mayer Quotes

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

There's so many inspiring people out there.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

My hits are not hits.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

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.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

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.

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.

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.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

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.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

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.

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

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.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

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.

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.

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

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.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

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.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction.

All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.

I love being the center of attention.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

I quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

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.

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.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

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.