John Mayer

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.'

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

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

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.

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.

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

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

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