Quotes By John Mayer

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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

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.