Quotes from John Mayer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

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.

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.

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.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

I mean, I'm quite happy. I'm happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

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.

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.

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

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.