Quotes from 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?'

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

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

'Cause a little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

I've realized you can use a fork as a spoon if you use it rapidly enough.

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

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

What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

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

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.

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

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

She's standing on a line between giving up and seeing how much more she can take.

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

I just sort of lost my head for a little while.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

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.

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

How come the only way to know how high you get me is to see how far I fall?

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

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