❝I pushed so hard, that when finally made it, I wasn’t done pushing. And that’s what happened in terms of anything that I wouldn’t want on my Wikipedia page— are all from me going “I will fucking show you”, and then we get it, and they go “you got it” and I went “I will fucking show you” and I think that’s where the ‘douchebag’ thing came from—it’s very closely associated to being a douchebag. But I will trace it back to me going “I will fucking show you.❞
—John Mayer
❝I like people who have microscopic obsessions with things.❞
—John Mayer
❝Last Sunday night, I put on the complete recordings of Miles Davis’ In A Silent Way, sat in my chair with my dog sleeping on my foot, poured myself a little Knob Creek to sip on and watched the Yellowstone River as the sun went down. As I looked up at the sky, I was planning this tour in my mind—I couldn’t have done that when it was unforeseen when and if it was going to happen.❞
—John Mayer 

“Last night I was calling you and you picked up the phone. Tonight I'm calling you straight to voice mail. I know you definitely ain't alone, and I'm no fool baby, I'm no fool. We are not even slow dancing in a burning room, there's not even a room, there's not even a building. We are now slow dancing in a field with a singed mark in it where grass won't grow, that's how old we are! Oh, I'm longing for the days when it used to be amazing, we were still in a burning room..." - John Mayer

"How many times can you come back together and think that this time will be different? 'Cause every time we get back together we're double wrong and half as long..." - John Mayer

❝I think one thing I would love to do away with is to kind of get rid of this imaginary “Wrap it up” light in my head when it comes to playing songs. You know, extend it if you still want to express yourself. If you still want to simmer on something, just do it. And change things up. Don’t be afraid if the crowd didn’t cheer as loud for the last song as you wanted them to. You don’t have to call an audible and change your set list. It’s all right, it’s OK.❞
—John Mayer (2013)
❝Let’s just not let people talk crap. Let’s just enjoy ourselves. You know, after a while, people’s talking of crap about you, you just start talking it about yourself to yourself when they’re not even saying it anymore. And that’s just gotta stop.❞
—John Mayer
❝May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don’t, may you have great friends to lean on.❞
—John Mayer
❝You can create dark neighborhoods in your mind as easily as you can create rural wonderlands.❞
—John Mayer
❝I don’t think I made this record [Room for Squares] for any one person, I don’t think I made it to reach somebody. I think I’m articulate enough to probably call that person and say “I want you,” or “I miss you”. I think what I wanted was more of like the collective group of people, everyone outside of my own body, I wanted them to understand what was going on inside of it, you know.❞
—John Mayer (2002)
❝People reference songs with times in their lives, and maybe I’m playing a song tonight and someone’s gonna be like “That’s a tough one to hear man, ‘cause that was my so-and-so song,” you know? My job is to keep making those songs, and I never wanna get to the point where I’m on stage and I have to play the same six, and all those other ones from the new records are for me, my band and my hardcore fans. I wanna be one of those artists where you come to the show and you’re like “Damn, that was a hit too!” When I say ‘hits’ I don’t mean million selling singles, I just mean songs that connect. That’s a hit. That’s amazing.❞
—John Mayer (2003)
❝I see people get upset about things that you just can’t steer, you know. And maybe if you’re in your twenties like I was, that’s a fun little market to get into. Your own image, pruning your own tree, I don’t know. But you get to a certain point and you go ‘it doesn’t really matter.’ I’ve had people say ‘you’re the greatest thing in the world’ and I’ve had people say ‘shame on you’, and I don’t believe either of them.❞
—John Mayer
❝It’s an old record in the sense that it’s what you get if you only focus on writing a record. What I think the record has is that it’s not partioned, the mindset is not partioned into five or six places. The guy writing the record is right there and there’s such a presence to it because I’m not also trying to compose another thing or another thought. And again, I don’t think I’ll ever do it differently. If you write without worrying about what it is you got, you really can plumb some depths, man. You really can come back with something and you say ‘I had no idea I could do that.’ Well you didn’t know because you would’ve told yourself it was a dumb idea.❞
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John Mayer (On Born and Raised.)

❝I think you better wise up boy”, where does that come from if not just from being so vulnerable and comfortable with yourself that you don’t shoot ideas down before you have them. “That won’t work” is the worst thing you could ever say. “That didn’t work” is cool, but “That won’t work” is not a way to go through life. And there were plenty of things that didn’t work, but there was nothing that won’t work, you know.❞
—John Mayer
❝You have to learn that not everything has a solution that day, you know. I think that’s part of the thing about growing up is that certain things are not gonna be figured out today and that you may have to go to sleep, with two or three knots in your head, and there’s nothing wrong with that and they will get figured out.❞
—John Mayer
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