Quotes By John Mayer

I just like collaborating.

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

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

My hits are not hits.

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

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

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

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.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

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.