Quotes By John Mayer

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.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.

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.

I've never been a bad boy.

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.

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

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 hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

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.

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

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

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

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.