John Mayer
John Mayer
John Clayton Mayeris an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and raised in nearby Fairfield. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, but disenrolled and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1997 with Clay Cook. Together, they formed a short-lived, two-man band called Lo-Fi Masters. After their split, Mayer continued to play local clubs—refining his skills and gaining a following. After his appearance at the 2001 South by Southwest Festival, he was signed to...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth16 October 1977
CountryUnited States of America
You can't spell 'developer' without 'devel.'
Fender Custom Shop made this nickel plated Stratbelieve it or not, it sounds incredible.
I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.
Yeah, Under The Table And Dreaming shaped the way that I think about writing songs.
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.
Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
I've learned to appreciate everything that has been given to me.
Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.
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.
Very few things in life are worthy of the kind of emotional distress we put ourselves through.
I don't write songs in order to stick it to my exes. I don't release underground dis tracks.
I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.
Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.