Quotes By John Mayer

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

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

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.

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.

I lost my head for a little while.

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

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

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.

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.'

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I just like collaborating.

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

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

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.

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'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.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

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 really don't want to be a hunk.

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.

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

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.

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

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

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.

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.

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

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.