John Mayer Quotes

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

Numb is the new deep.

I'll never let your head hit the bed without my hand behind it.

If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you for a week and I don't want to go figure out something to FedEx you, then we've got a problem. You can fake the words I miss you, but you can't fake getting someone a book.

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.

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

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.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.

I wanna run through the halls of my high school, I wanna scream at the top of my lungs. I just found out there's no such thing as the real world, just a lie you've got to rise above.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

How come everything I need always comes with batteries?

My hits are not hits.

By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.

May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

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

Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.

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

I'm not an icon. Not even in America.

I'm not really good at keeping my own secrets. I can keep other people's secrets pretty well. Unless they're really good and people deserve to hear them. And I'll disseminate the information accordingly.

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies!

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

[on Jessica Simpson] Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.

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 quit the media game. I'm out. I'm done.

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

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

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

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

Friends, lovers, or nothing, we can really only ever be one.

Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!