John Mayer Quotes

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.

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.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

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

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

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.

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

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

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

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.

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.

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.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

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.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

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.'

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

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.

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!'

It’s my failure to sound like my heroes that’s allowed me to sound like myself.

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

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.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

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.

I've never been a bad boy.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

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.

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.

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

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.

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.

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

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.

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

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.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

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.