John Mayer Quotes - Page 4

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

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?'

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

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

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

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 came from the last couple of years in a generation where we didn't have a computer around so we didn't waste as much time on the internet as we do now so I had large chuncks of time which to devote to doing something.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

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

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

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.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

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

What I enjoy about the live experience is getting onstage, being handed a guitar that is in tune, taking it off mute, knowing that the very moment I want to play a note, I can play it. People are waiting on me and I'm waiting on me, and I have no idea what I'm going to play. That's the biggest joy in life.