Quotes from John Mayer

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

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

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.

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 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 may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

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.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

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

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

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

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

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.

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.

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

Changes in life are like extra strength Gold Bond Medicated Powder. The burning means it's working.

I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.