Quotes from John Mayer

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

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

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.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

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

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.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you ' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

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 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.

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.

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

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

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

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

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.

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

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

Love is a hot shower where your skin never prunes.

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

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

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

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

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