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.Collection: Dating
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.Collection: Wedding
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.Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Dating
I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.Collection: Best
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.'Collection: Fear
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.Collection: Happiness
Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Learning
I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.Collection: Cool
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.Collection: Amazing
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'
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.
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
I really don't want to be a hunk.
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
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.
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.
I just like collaborating.
No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.
There's so many inspiring people out there.
I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.
I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.
I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
I've never been a bad boy.
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.
I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.
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?'
People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.
When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.
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.
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.
I lost my head for a little while.
I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
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 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.