John Mayer Quotes

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

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.

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday.

I know the heart of life is good.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

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.

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

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

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.

I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.

Someday I'll fly Someday I'll soar Someday I'll be so damn much more Cause I'm bigger than my body gives me credit for

You look so good it hurts sometimes.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

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

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

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

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

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.

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

We're supposed to lose our friends to time, at an age when we're ready to agree to the terms of having lived a long life. Not now.

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

Waiting on the World to Change.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

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

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.

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

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

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

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 that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

The outcome of a still veracitless life. Am I livin' it right?

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.

Disappointment has a name, it's heartbreak

Half of my heart’s got a grip on the situation, half of my heart takes time.

I need to learn how to start saying no. Like when someone says ‘please stop choking me.’

If you never stop when you wave goodbye you just might find, if you give it time, you will wave hello again.

Numb is the new deep.