John Mayer quotes:

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

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

A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.

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.'

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.

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

Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.

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'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.

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.

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.

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.

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.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

I wanted to be a blues guitar player. And a singer. And a songwriter. Not a shock jock.

No matter what I do, I'm going to earn it.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

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?'

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

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.

There are people in the world who have the power to change our values.

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

I love being the center of attention.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Nothing feels worse than having to break the stage down before the performance, and I mean nothing.

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

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 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.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad..."

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

I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

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.

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.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute.

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.

You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can insert a tampon. No, I do it because I want to take a brain bath. It's like a hot whirlpool for my brain, in a brain space that is 100 percent agreeable with itself.

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

And i start sleeping and dreaming and i think i'll dream about you, all through the night.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

The emotionally intelligent person is skilled in four areas: identifying emotions, using emotions, understanding emotions, and regulating emotions.

I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like, but I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

What is being black? It's making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that's seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you'll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude's.

Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That's all I'll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage.

Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.

By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora's box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad...

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.

How dare you say it's nothing to me?Baby, you're the only light I ever saw.

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn into mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.

Fathers be good to your daughters. Daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers who turn in mothers. So, mothers be good to your daughters too.

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

I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time - that was social media in 1992.

Playing music to me is as close to having super powers as you can have.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.

Songs can be Trojan horses, taking charged ideas and sneaking past the ego's defenses and into the open mind.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

I've never been a bad boy.

I just like collaborating.

I really don't want to be a hunk.

I'm trying everything I can not to be jaded 'cause I don't like jaded musicians.

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

I've figured out my learning curve. I can look at something and somehow know exactly how long it will take for me to learn it.

It's very liberating when you finally realize it's impossible to make everyone like you.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

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.

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'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.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

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

I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.

I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

It's better to say too much, than never to say what you need to say again.

May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don't.

Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.

Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around Fear is a friend who's misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good

Anybody who's made it will tell you, you can make it. Anyone who hasn't made it will tell you, you can't

It's my failure to sound like my heroes that's allowed me to sound like myself.

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.

I believe that my life's gonna see the love I give returned to me.

Whenever they say it can't be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

I am who I am because of Dave Matthews Band

Most times when you try to be all things to all people, you end up being nothing.

This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you still have to have an open ear"¦.Nobody's music is the enemy of your music"¦The idea that someone else has made it when they shouldn't have made it is toxic thinking.

Half of my heart's got a real good imagination, half of my heart's got you. . .Half of my hearts got a right mind to tell you that half of my heart won't do.

She's perfect, so flawless, I'm not impressed.

You gotta be able to explain things to yourself when the lights go off and you get in the bed. You gotta deal with you at the end of the day.

I find myself in situations that I know would be unbelievable pictures and I have to gauge, Is this worth taking the camera out? Am I gonna lose the moment? Am I gonna get a dirty look from Sting?

I am beginning to know what it feels like to be a woman. To have people looking at you all the time. And I'm sorry ladies, I had no idea! But people are looking at me all the time. It's like I have musical boobies!

I think that one of the greatest connections and attractions you can have with somebody, is understanding somebody.

I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

I have masturbated myself out of serious problems in my life.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.

I can't stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There's a lot of people who don't want to finish songs because they don't think they're any good. Well they're not good enough. Write it! I want you to write me the worst songs you could possible write me because you won't write bad songs. You're thinking they're bad so you don't have to finish it. That's what I really think it is. Well it's all right. Well, how do you know? It's not done!

God only knows how much I'd love you if you let me, but I can't break through at all.

Everybody enjoys arguing about the current state of music because it feels as if you are talking about something incredibly important, yet it requires little understanding of the subject matter at hand. It's like world politics meets the pink questions in Trivial Pursuit. Points are made but nothing gets accomplished.

I am invincible, as long as I'm alive.

My hits are not hits.