John Mayer Quotes

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

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.

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

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

I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.

We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...

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

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

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.

By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

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

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

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

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

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.

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

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

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

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

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

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.

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

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

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done!

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

Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.

I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can insert a tampon. No, I do it because I want to take a brain bath. It's like a hot whirlpool for my brain, in a brain space that is 100 percent agreeable with itself.

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.

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

Never, ever underestimate the power of 'Id Like that.

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.

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.

There's so many inspiring people out there.