Zitat des Tages von John Mayer:
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
I love being the center of attention.
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.
I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.
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'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
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.
It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.
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.
There's so many inspiring people out there.
I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible.
I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.
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.
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.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
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.
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 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.
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
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.
I really don't want to be a hunk.
I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.
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.
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.
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 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?'
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.
Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.
Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
My hits are not hits.
Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.
I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.
It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.
I just like collaborating.