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" I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats. "
John Mayer
Playing
Going
Surprised
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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. "
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Moment
Life
Learning
" I scientifically engineer my music to be as accessible as possible. "
John Mayer
Possible
Accessible
Engineer
" I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. "
John Mayer
Never
Been
Someone
" 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. "
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Learn
Night
Everything
" I wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction. "
John Mayer
Thought
Away
Direction
" All I want a song to do is just to kind of present an idea. "
John Mayer
Present
Song
Want
" I really don't want to be a hunk. "
John Mayer
Really
Hunk
Want
" I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it. "
John Mayer
Age
Successful
Very
" I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. "
John Mayer
Order
Write
Stick
" They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. "
John Mayer
Side
They Say
Always
" 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
Time
Giving
Me
" Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix. "
John Mayer
Guitarist
Failure
Become
" Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing. "
John Mayer
Stage
Nothing
Down
" Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. "
John Mayer
Pursuits
Mother
Impress
" My hits are not hits. "
John Mayer
Hits
" 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
Experience
Feeling
Bold
" I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night. "
John Mayer
Show
Down
Feel
" I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' "
John Mayer
Table
Restaurant
Never
" I'm very happy in all aspects of my life. "
John Mayer
Aspects
Life
Happy
" There's so many inspiring people out there. "
John Mayer
Inspiring
People
Many
" I just like collaborating. "
John Mayer
Collaborating
Like
Just
" I'm not an icon. Not even in America. "
John Mayer
America
Icon
Even
" 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
" Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way. "
John Mayer
Danger
Way
Own
" I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me. "
John Mayer
Me
Appreciate
Been
" 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. "
John Mayer
Doing
You
Stage
" Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly. "
John Mayer
Going
Day
Age
" You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. "
John Mayer
You
Age
Happy
" 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
" I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get out. That's a blessing, because I never had to lay on my bed staring up at the ceiling going, 'What am I going to do with my life?' "
John Mayer
Bed
My Life
Life