John Mayer Quotes - Page 6

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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

My hits are not hits.

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

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.

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

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

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

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

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.

I've never been a bad boy.

How come everything I need always comes with batteries?

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.

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.

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'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

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

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