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" There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?' "
John Mayer
People
Thing
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" I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to detach. I don't want to go live in a gated community. "
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" I'm very happy in all aspects of my life. "
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" It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. "
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" Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly. "
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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 wanted everybody to like me. I thought I was one shuck and jive away in every direction. "
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" I lost my head for a little while. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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Never
Sober
" 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. "
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Giving
Me
" I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.' "
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Restaurant
Never
" 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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Life
Learning
" They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side. "
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Side
They Say
Always
" I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister. "
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Never
Been
Someone
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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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Dreams
Me
" I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. "
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Accidents
Days
" I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock. "
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Singer
Shock
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Really
People
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Realized
Enough
" 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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" 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. "
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You
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