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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. "

John Mayer

Know

Hope

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John Mayer

Fear

Dreams

" I lost my head for a little while. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking. "

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Person

Magic

" 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

" 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. "

" I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks. "

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

John Mayer

Best

Hiding

" I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen. "

" 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. "

" I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks. "

" I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. "

" I don't have anybody telling me what to do. "

John Mayer

Anybody

Telling

" I'm not an icon. Not even in America. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I just like collaborating. "

John Mayer

Collaborating

Just

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

" You make a choice in your life, and it affects your life in all the ways, good and bad. "

" I just sort of lost my head for a little while. "

" It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it. "

" I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night. "