John Mayer Quotes

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though...

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

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

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

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

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know.

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

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

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

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

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.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

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

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...

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

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.