Quotes By John Mayer

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

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

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

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

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

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'm not an icon. Not even in America.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

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

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

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

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

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

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

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

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.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

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

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

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?'

I love being the center of attention.

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'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

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

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

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.

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.

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

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.'

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.