Quotes by "John Mayer"

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

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 got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've 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 who's an 8 color type...I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm 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 it's nothing to me? Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

I've never been a bad boy.

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.

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.

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.

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 got a few missing.

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.

I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?'

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

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