A biography for John Mayerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea.”
“Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.”
“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.”
“I lost my head for a little while.”
“I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.”
“I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community.”
“Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.”
“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
“Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.”
“It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.”
“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.”
“Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?”
“I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.”
“I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.”
“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'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.”
“I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.”
“You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad.”
“There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'”