1.
Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.
John Mayer
One day, all will become lucid. So in the meantime, chuckle at the disarray, grin through your sorrows, be resilient and always recall that there is a purpose behind everything.
2.
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.
John Mayer
3.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer
4.
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
John Mayer
5.
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.
John Mayer
6.
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
7.
Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.
John Mayer
8.
Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.
John Mayer
9.
If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.
John Mayer
10.
The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.
John Mayer
11.
The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.
John Mayer
12.
Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't
John Mayer
13.
Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.
John Mayer
14.
Pain throws your heart to the ground
Love turns the whole thing around
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
But I know the heart of life is good
John Mayer
15.
I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.
John Mayer
16.
May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.
John Mayer
17.
When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.
John Mayer
18.
I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.
John Mayer
19.
There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.
John Mayer
20.
I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.
John Mayer
21.
They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
John Mayer
22.
I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.
John Mayer
23.
It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.
John Mayer
24.
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.
John Mayer
25.
When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.
John Mayer
26.
Fear is a friend who's misunderstood
John Mayer
27.
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
28.
Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
John Mayer
29.
I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like. But, I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.
John Mayer
30.
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!'
John Mayer
31.
It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.
John Mayer
32.
I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
John Mayer
33.
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
34.
Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?
John Mayer
35.
Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.
John Mayer
36.
I've never been a bad boy.
John Mayer
37.
So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.
John Mayer
38.
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
39.
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
40.
I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band
John Mayer
41.
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
John Mayer
42.
The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.
John Mayer
43.
You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.
John Mayer
44.
I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.
John Mayer
45.
This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.
John Mayer
46.
You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.
John Mayer
47.
I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.
John Mayer
48.
I really don't want to be a hunk.
John Mayer
49.
Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.
John Mayer
50.
Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to your daughters, too.
John Mayer
