Explore Quotes by John Mayer

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.

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.

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