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" I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction. "
John Mayer
Thought
Away
Direction
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" I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible. "
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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. "
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Day
" I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me. "
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Me
Appreciate
Been
" There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?' "
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Thing
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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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Good
Bad
Choice
" I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction. "
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Someone
Never
Sober
" I just like collaborating. "
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Collaborating
Like
Just
" 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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Think
Famous
Important
" No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it. "
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Earn
Matter
Going
" I just sort of lost my head for a little while. "
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Just
While
Head
" I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians. "
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Trying
Musicians
I Can
" I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' "
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Table
Restaurant
Never
" I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night. "
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Show
Down
Feel
" I'm not an icon. Not even in America. "
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America
Icon
Even
" 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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My Life
Character
Life
" All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. "
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Present
Song
Want
" I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me. "
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Dating
Hate
Me
" It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it. "
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Success
React
People
" I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve. "
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Best
Hiding
Like
" Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. "
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Guitarist
Failure
Become
" I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. "
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Own
Our
I Feel
" I love being the center of attention. "
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Being
Center
Love
" I've never been a bad boy. "
John Mayer
Boy
Never
Bad
" 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. "
John Mayer
Me
Know
Hope
" 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. "
John Mayer
Single
Home
Just
" I lost my head for a little while. "
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While
Lost
Little While
" 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. "
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Emotion
Need
Place
" Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly. "
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Going
Day
Age
" Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. "
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Stage
Nothing
Down
" Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons? "
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You
End
Loved