John Mayer Quotes

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.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

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

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'

I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No - I want magenta!'

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.

I'm someone who would like to act like I don't care, but I care.

You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme. . .For heavier things

You look so good it hurts sometimes.

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.

I know the heart of life is good.

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

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

I am tempted to keep the car in drive, And leave it all behind...

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

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.'

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear….Nobody's music is the enemy of your music…The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.

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

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

It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

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

In a time when everything can be next day and ordered and put on credit and paid for, music to me is promise, all promise, very little realization. It's the promise of walking into a room with a guitar and not being sure you will leave with an idea that will take, not being sure it won't slip away from you.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

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 went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like. But, I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.