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" 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

Singing

Think

Day

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

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" It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you. "

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" I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm 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. "

" My hits are not hits. "

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" 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.' "

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Fear

Dreams

" All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. "

" When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage. "

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

" I lost my head for a little while. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. "

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

" I really don't want to be a hunk. "

" People are really concerned with what other people are saying about them. "

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

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People

Clever

" 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. "

" I'm not deluded enough to think that everyone who knows my name is a listener. You know, I hope that part of that interest - part of that public interest - has to do with me still making records that people like. "

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Know

Hope

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

" 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. "

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

" What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit. "

" I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community. "

" I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented. "

" I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. "

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