Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
I can make the most tasteless reference at some point and then go into one of my most earnest songs of the repertoire.
I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
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 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.
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 think people right now, the age they are, being 21 and 22, really do want to find a group of bands they can take with them through life.
I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.
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'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.
I'm not being trite. I'm not being a parody of myself, and in finding a new kind of color to adopt for myself, it's not this or that: it's singer-songwriter, but it's also blues guitar player, it's also comedian.
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.
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.
It is too easy to watch music coming out of people's mouths lately and you're not quite sure if it was written with the best of intentions.
Numb is the new deep, done with the old me, and talk is the same cheap it's been.
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.
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.
One of John's hobbies is stand up comedy. He has stated that he often does random, surprise performances at the famous "Comedy Cellar" in New York, New York.
On May 14, 2004, after the senior class president of Pennsbury High School, located just outside of Philadelphia's main line, expressed his love of John's music and his goal of throwing the ultimate prom, John surprised the student body at the school's prom and performed an hour long set.
In the summer of 2003, Mayer and "Martin Guitars" signed a collaboration deal in which "Martin" would create 404 models of a special edition acoustic guitar. The number, 404, is significant because it is one of Atlanta's area codes.
In 1998, John formed his first band called, LoFi Masters, with his friend Clay Cook. The band played in small night club venues and coffee houses around the greater Atlanta area for a year before they broke up.
On February 11, 2007, at the 49th Grammy Awards, Mayer was awarded with two Grammys for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for "Waiting on the World to Change" and Pop Vocal Album for Continuum.
John's song "Waiting on the World to Change" appears in a "20/20" commercial.
John is the middle child of three boys.
John's latest album, Continuum, was released on September 12, 2006. The album's first single is titled, "Waiting on the World to Change."
John will perform at the American Music Awards.
John lived in Japan and loved it. One of his many tattoos is a Japanese koi fish, which is located on his right shoulder, and reminds him of his life in Japan.
John's Grammy Awards: 2003 - Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - "Your Body Is A Wonderland" 2003 - Best New Artist 2005 - Song of the Year - "Daughters" 2005 - Best Male Pop Vocal Performance - "Daughters"
John has been playing guitar since he was 13 years old.
John was ranked #16 in Teen People Magazine's "50 Sexiest Guys Ever" poll in 2004.
John was named one of Rolling Stone Magazine's "People of the Year" in 2002.
John is 6'3" tall.
A few of John's favorite bands/singers are: Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, The Police, Ben Folds Five, Jimi Hendrix, and Coldplay.
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