Quotes By John Mayer

I love being the center of attention.

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.

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?'

I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

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.

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.

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.