John Mayer Quotes

"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'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve."

"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."

"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 is too easy to watch music coming out of people's mouths lately and you're not quite sure if it was written with the best of intentions."

"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."

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

"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 think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands they can take with them through life."

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

"I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night."

"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."

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

"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."

"I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats."

"Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been."

"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."

"And if you never stop when you wave goodbye, you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again. You just might wave hello again. And that's the way this wheel keeps working now."

"Even if you think the flame has died, there's at least one lyric that'll hit that last hot spot, and then you'll find yourself as f***ed as you were the day you lied and said you never wanted to see her again,"

"I can't wait to figure out what wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be."