Quotes by John Mayer

“As an old, jaded, painted whore of the theatre once told me: Just BE THERE, F**K!”

“If this universe is really shrinking, well be together in time.”

I love you more than songs can say, but I cant keep running after yesterday...

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what youre really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though Ive got a few missing. Its okay though, because Ive got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone whos an 8 color type...Im like, hey girl, Magenta! and shes like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and Im like, no I want Magenta!

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

How dare you say its nothing to me?Baby, youre the only light I ever saw.

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems,Better put em in quotations

Everybody is a stranger, but thats the danger in going my own way.

Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and thats all I need. Im perfectly lonely.

This is not to say, there never comes a day Ill take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, Ill have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what Im singing. It comes down to being believable. You dont have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say Im sorry, but Ive got to say hello to you, and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, Not for me, Bub. I dont want anything to do with you.

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

Ive never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Im willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think its psychologically important to people when theyre famous to be the only famous person they know.

Theres a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

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

Im getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. Im 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.

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

I cant even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. Its a nightmare.