John Mayer: Trending quotes

“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.”

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

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

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

“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
So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one but me, and that's all I need. I'm perfectly lonely.”

“Fear is a friend who's misunderstood”

“I'm a mess of unfinished thoughts.”

“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 go, "No, I'm happy for you?"”

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

“By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone…
But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on”

“You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm probably never gonna find the perfect rhyme… For heavier things”

“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.”

“It was so frightening at the time to be seventeen and have heart monitors hooked up to you. That was the moment the songwriter in me was born. I discovered a whole other side of me. I came home that night and started writing lyrics. I discovered it all at once: It was like opening up a lockbox, and inside was a depth that I didn't even know I had as a person, or a writer — incredible creativity and vision and neurosis, complete neurosis. They all go together in a package.”

“Gravity is working against me,
And gravity wants to bring me down.Oh, twice as much ain't twice as good
And can't sustain like one half could.
It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees.”