John Mayer Quotes - Page 7

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them.

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.

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

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

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

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 like giving people something they don't want to miss the next time. It's a show with little twists and turns and curves. It has me being silly and stupid and compassionate and completely deep.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

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

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

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

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

How dare you say it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

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

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

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

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

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment.

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

[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.

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