329 Quotes by John Mayer

The tweets are getting shorter, but the songs are still 4 minutes long. You're coming up with 140-character zingers, and the song is still 4 minutes long…I realized about a year ago that I couldn't have a complete thought anymore. And I was a tweetaholic. I had four million twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using twitter as an outlet and I started using twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn't write a song.

Not worrying is a skill. It's a skill not breaking down every single moment.

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

When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the waking up is the hardest part. You roll outta bed and down on your knees and for a moment you can hardly breathe.

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

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

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!

Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.