John Mayer Quotes

Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

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.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

Today I finally overcame tryin' to fit the world inside a picture frame.

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

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

There's so many inspiring people out there.

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

Somebody told me that this is the place where everything's better and everything's safe

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.

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

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

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

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

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

Welcome to the real world, she said to me.
Condescendingly.
Take a seat.
Take your life.
Plot it out in black and white.

Someday I'll fly
Someday I'll soar
Someday I'll be so damn much more
Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

Numb is the new deep.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

I can't describe it in words, but I can see it in my head, its color, its light, its shapes, and I've managed to synthesize my love for myself by way of many different reasonings and processes, and I've been able to really synthesize my own satisfaction and things that do it for me. They've usually been self-taught, self-instructed, self-refined. So to be with anybody else has to somewhat lie in that comfort zone I've created with myself so well.

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

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

I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.

Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to ... we're slow dancing in a burning room!!!

If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.

Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn't follow their dreams, and don't want you to either.

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

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

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

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

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

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

Sometimes I get scared that I'm going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.

Keep me where the light is.

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

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.

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

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.

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.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

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.

When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want.

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

I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again ...

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

I just like collaborating.

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

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.

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

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

Just be fucking honest about how you feel about people while you're alive.

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

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

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

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. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type ... I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta!

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'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

We're still waiting, waiting, waiting on the world to change.

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear ... .Nobody's music is the enemy of your music ... The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.

I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done!

Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

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.

Lets keep the car in drive and leave it all behind

I love being the center of attention.

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.

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'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.

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

I know the heart of life is good.

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

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

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

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.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

You love who you love, who you love

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.

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

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.

Waiting on the World to Change,

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

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.