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My hits are not hits.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

I love being the center of attention.

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

There's so many inspiring people out there.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

I really don't want to be a hunk.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

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.

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.

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

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?'

John Mayer

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.

John Mayer

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

John Mayer

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

My hits are not hits.

John Mayer

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

John Mayer

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

John Mayer

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

John Mayer

I just like collaborating.

John Mayer