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2026 (Updated 5/10/2026)

Radio Intros 2026

LIFE With John Mayer on Sirius XM Radio

I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)

<SONG|I Don't Trust Myself (With Loving You)>Here's why, if you're a songwriter, you should just write what you think no matter what. Against the wave of your own criticism. In I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You, there's a lyric in there that I think is a cop out. And no one has ever pointed it out. And that's what I want songwriters to understand. No one is as hard on oneself as the writer. In the bridge, I sing, "who do you love? Me or the thought of me?" That's been said before a billion times.

6/10/2025 (Updated 6/15/2025)

How's Life with John Mayer: Maggie Rogers

LIFE With John Mayer on Sirius XM Radio

I wrote a song about a guy who built a submarine. Walt Grace's Submarine test, I don't know if you've ever heard it. A total fantasy as I wrote it. The only third person song I ever wrote, and I realized it's my dad.

2025 (Updated 5/22/2025)

Radio Intros 2025

LIFE With John Mayer on Sirius XM Radio

Lord Huron has been a favorite of mine since I discovered them in about 2012. And I had kind of considered them one of those bands that's everyone's little secret.

10/21/2024 (Updated 10/30/2024)

New York Mets Appreciation

@johnmayer Instagram post

So thank you Francisco Lindor, and thank you to the 2024 Mets for the unbelievable adventure, the inspiration, and the reminder to never give up. It was more than enough.

9/26/2024 (Updated 8/27/2025)

Podcast Interview with Aaron Sterling

Diving In Deep with Sara Evans

What you hear on Queen of California, the bass and drums, is me just meeting him.

2024 (Updated 2/10/2025)

Radio Intros 2024

LIFE With John Mayer on Sirius XM Radio

I'm admitting this, I've never admitted this to anyone before: I look at this channel as my autobiography. My audio-biography. High-five, everyone.

2023 (Updated 2/16/2025)

Radio Intros 2023

LIFE With John Mayer on Sirius XM Radio

I talked about 3x5 to someone the other day [...]. That song was brought back by fans who really loved it.

11/22/2023 (Updated 2/3/2024)

Sirius XM Channel Debut

LIFE With John Mayer

Welcome to LIFE, with me, John Mayer.

10/2/2023 (Updated 10/14/2023)

Interview with Andy Cohen, 2023

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

But if I had to take one out of the discography it would be Paradise Valley.

7/19/2023 (Updated 7/29/2023)

Podcast Interview with Rick Rubin

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

I've never in my life been more in tune with myself in terms of even living in my body of stress. I am in my physical body more than I've ever been before.

6/24/2023 (Updated 7/23/2023)

Taylor Swift, Live in Minneapolis

Speech before "Dear John"

I do not care. We have all grown up. We're good.

4/8/2023 (Updated 6/1/2023)

Live in Sacramento, CA 2023

Solo Tour

I try not to get bitchiness in a song. It happens sometimes and it'll kill a song.

4/1/2023 (Updated 4/10/2023)

Live in St. Paul, MN 2023

Solo Tour

My favorite thing to do when I'm sitting in traffic is to think about Walt Grace and figure out what he's up to. What he was up to. He died in 1985. 

3/25/2023 (Updated 4/10/2023)

Live in Cleveland, Ohio 2023

Solo Tour

It reminds me of a lot of sad things that took place in a very monumental part of my life where, 9/11 had intersected with my first album coming out, and it was very profound.

1/15/2023 (Updated 1/18/2023)

"Wolf" Prototype Announcement

@johnmayer Instagram post

It shall always be played with love for this music and a culture that’s accepted me with open arms. See ya on stage…

1/11/2023 (Updated 1/12/2023)

Jeff Beck Instagram Post

@johnmayer post in remembrance of Jeff Beck

If you wanted to meet your favorite guitar players, your best bet would be to check the audience at one of Jeff’s concerts.

12/21/2022 (Updated 6/1/2023)

Interview with Alex Cooper

Call Her Daddy Podcast

The first three records of my life was just like proving. Proving. And you should. And then you start hearing people tell you, “thank you. Your music got me through a dark time.” That’s so much deeper.

9/12/2022 (Updated 11/19/2022)

Private Cocktail Party in Chicago, IL

Intro to Free Fallin'

A lot of younger people think it's my song. And I hope I've brought something a little extra to it. Like maybe a higher blood alcohol content.

8/21/2022 (Updated 1/5/2023)

Rise For the River: Flood Benefit Concert

Performance of Born and Raised album

And over the last ten years you have put the paper machete on it. You've put your own pictures up on that wall. I just built the wall.

7/19/2022 (Updated 8/16/2022)

Dead & Company Tour Instagram Post

@johnmayer post for end of 2022 tour

Thank you one and all for allowing me a seat on this transcendent ride. ♥️

5/23/2022 (Updated 5/24/2022)

Born and Raised 10-Year Instagram post

@johnmayer post to commemorate album release

It wasn’t made with any consideration for the outside world. It was a deeply personal and tightly-knit creative process that took nothing external into account.

4/5/2022 (Updated 5/22/2022)

Live in Tampa, Florida 2022

Concert at Amalie Arena

So this next song I have a very strange relationship with. It's the song that, as they say, "put me on the map."

3/16/2022 (Updated 1/21/2023)

Podcast interview with Cory Wong

"A Song Too Perfect To Record?" Episode 2 of 2 from Wong Notes Podcast

It's called, "Over and Over." And it was one of the first three songs that we did for Continuum. And it was gorgeous. It was a beautiful song.

3/9/2022 (Updated 7/20/2023)

Podcast interview with Cory Wong

"Mayer is King," Episode 1 of 2 from Wong Notes Podcast

My job is to stay just a little bit ahead so you don't like it until next year, or the year after.

1/12/2022 (Updated 1/12/2023)

Instagram Live Stream with Jeff Ross

Streamed while picking up Bob Saget's car

And I'll tell you this: do you know how effusive you have to be in your love for everyone in your life for each and every person you loved to be told by another, "he loved you so much"?

1/10/2022 (Updated 1/11/2022)

Bob Saget Instagram Post

@johnmayer post in remembrance of Bob Saget

I’ve met many people in my life, but when Bob crossed my path, I just held onto him, and I wasn’t letting go.

12/9/2021 (Updated 12/16/2021)

Podcast interview with Aaron Sterling

Talking about recording Sob Rock on Drum Candy

But it's hard to explain his process. You're just whittling away for a year.

10/29/2021 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Last Train Home (Ballad Version)

@johnmayer Instagram post

This track was recorded live, in one take, by musicians with so much experience and capability that they hold the magic together with a mix of restraint and knowing when to lay something down that makes a statement.

9/18/2021 (Updated 12/5/2021)

"Room For Squares" Instagram post

Album's 20th anniversary

“Room For Squares,” my first major label release, turns 20 today.

8/31/2021 (Updated 1/3/2022)

Instagram Story Q&A (August 2021)

Questions from various fans

A song is 1 part divine inspiration, three parts homework/code cracking.

8/20/2021 (Updated 12/7/2021)

Sob Rock Zine Volume 2

Introductory note printed in Sob Rock Zine Volume 2

Well... 'Sob Rock' is out. And because of you, it's feeling alive, and vital, and special.

8/10/2021 (Updated 1/3/2022)

Guitar World - October 2021

Interview from October 2021 Issue of Guitar World magazine

So where a lot of people would think that the Eighties was all really goofy and neon-colored, well, to me, there was a lot of earnestness. The Eighties gave us Peter Gabriel. That's some of the coolest stuff in the world, you know?

7/16/2021 (Updated 1/2/2022)

Sob Rock album release stream

Via Clubhouse app

So too as an adult do you go, Look I'm gonna be fine. I know how to do this. I just don't want to.

7/14/2021 (Updated 12/5/2021)

John Mayer Explains How Making His New Album ‘Sob Rock’ Was the Music Equivalent of ‘Shitposting’

Article published in Rolling Stone

It’s called Sob Rock because it’s a shitpost.

7/14/2021 (Updated 1/18/2022)

Interview with Zane Lowe, 2021

John Mayer: ‘Sob Rock’ and Implanting False Memories | Apple Music

I'm beginning to look at what I do more like a film director. Not to be artsy fartsy.

7/9/2021 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Article published on Guitar.com

JOHN MAYER CONFIRMS ROXY PINK EDITION OF HIS PRS SILVER SKY SIGNATURE ELECTRIC

John Mayer has confirmed a Roxy Pink edition of his PRS Silver Sky signature electric.

7/6/2021 (Updated 12/12/2021)

The Blackbird Spyplane Interview

What’s up with John Mayer??

That’s been my hope: ‘Can you grind the influences into a fine enough dust that you can make a new paste out of it?’

6/11/2021 (Updated 1/10/2024)

Podcast Interview with Bill Kreutzmann

Comes a Time Podcast

You understand that peoples' souls live in the variances between the performances.

6/1/2021 (Updated 1/6/2022)

Sob Rock Zine Volume 1

Introductory note printed in Sob Rock Zine Volume 1

All you have to do is say ‘I’m thinking of calling it SOB ROCK’ and just wait for a facial expression or a vocal inflection that you don’t like.

6/1/2021 (Updated 12/11/2021)

Article from The Wall Street Journal

"Why John Mayer Teased His New Single, ‘Last Train Home,’ on TikTok"

“As a musician and a songwriter, he’s as good as anybody at finding something that’s going on in his emotional inner life and expressing it eloquently.”

5/13/2021 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Sob Rock Anticipation Instagram Story

Text From @johnmayer’s Instagram Story

I’ll put it like this: every day you have to go without my new music is another day I can work harder to make sure it gets heard by as many people as might enjoy it.

4/3/2021 (Updated 1/2/2022)

Paul Simon Instagram post

About NBC News Think article

Well, I’m one of Paul Simon’s descendants, and for as long as I live I will make sure he’s never forgotten.

3/12/2021 (Updated 7/23/2023)

Kerwin Frost Talks podcast

Kerwin Frost Talks to John Mayer (Episode 2, Season 2)

Is "St. Patrick's Day" a Christmas song, is what I'm asking.

2/22/2021 (Updated 1/12/2022)

Interview with Andy Cohen, 2021

Appearance on Radio Andy show

I've seen Bill Clinton in a room. I believe maybe I might have shaken his hand quickly. I might be in a picture with him. I don't remember. I hope that's not mean that I don't remember.

2/22/2021 (Updated 1/6/2022)

Interview with Andy Cohen, 2021

Live on Radio Andy

I would put the Sunday circulars on the music stand on the piano, and I would sing what I was reading on the Sunday circulars. [Sings] Tide, two for a dollar twenty-nine!

1/31/2021 (Updated 12/18/2022)

Instagram Guitar Livestream, January 2021

Excerpts from stream

You can hear certain songs that are like progressions of me looking for the best version of that song, and when I find it I stop.

12/24/2020 (Updated 1/8/2022)

Current Mood, Christmas Eve 2020

Streamed on Instagram Live

This was a weird year. I was finishing up one record, and then I decided I never want to finish that record. And then I started a whole new record, and I'm finishing that one.

12/17/2020 (Updated 1/3/2022)

Long Distance: Paul Reed Smith Interview

From YouTube episode of Long Distance by PRS Guitars with Paul Reed Smith

I love ideas. I love, “Oh here's a funny idea, here's a cool idea for this, here's a cool idea for that.” I just love ideas and that's all I am is ideas.

10/6/2020 (Updated 12/6/2021)

RIP Eddie Van Halen

@johnmayer Instagram post

Learning to play the guitar taught me so many things, but still absolutely nothing about how to play like Eddie Van Halen.

6/22/2020 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Masterclass with Eric Harland

Excerpt from online masterclass

There's no one who doesn't love yacht rock. It brings everyone together.