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" 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. "
John Mayer
Emotion
Need
Place
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" I love being the center of attention. "
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" It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it. "
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" You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad. "
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" I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. "
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" Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. "
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" I just sort of lost my head for a little while. "
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" There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical. "
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" If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to hear it. The touring thing is unbelievable. It really is amazing from what we did the last tour even to what we are doing now. "
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Lost
Little While
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Accidents
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Me
Know
Hope
" 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. "
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You
Want
" I'm not an icon. Not even in America. "
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America
Icon
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People
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Never
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Telling
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