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.’ – John Mayer
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. – John Mayer
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it… and the minute it takes off, I’m not gonna be home for a while. – John Mayer
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. – John Mayer
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. – John Mayer
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. – John Mayer
I have the obsessiveness of someone who’s a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. – John Mayer
It’s very liberating when you finally realize it’s impossible to make everyone like you. – John Mayer
If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. – John Mayer
I’m not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats. – John Mayer
I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction. – John Mayer
When you do an interview with me, you’re talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There’s no magic in my words, it’s just me talking. – John Mayer
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. – John Mayer
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day. – John Mayer
There’s a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: ‘Where’s the thing?’ – John Mayer
I’m singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That’s what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen. – John Mayer
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. – John Mayer
