Quotes By John Mayer

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

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

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.

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

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.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.