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2019

10/3/2019 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Live in Oslo, Norway 2019

Concert at Oslo Spektrum

I like this song because it's not saying goodbye. It's saying, I will wait forever for you to become cool.

9/16/2019 (Updated 12/9/2021)

Live in San Francisco, CA 2019

"Emoji of a Wave" Title Explained

A lot of people wonder why this song is called "Emoji of a Wave."

8/11/2019 (Updated 2/8/2023)

Live in Atlanta, GA 2019

Concert at State Farm Arena

For some reason this show has more nostalgia in it than the others that I've played. So I hope you don't mind me sharing some thoughts as they reappear in my mind.

8/8/2019 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Article in The Chicago Tribune

John Mayer has the life that he has always dreamed about, from Dead to solo work

“It took me a lot of years to figure out what I deserve to go for and what I don’t deserve to go for. What’s my area? What’s my lane? What’s my thing?”

5/14/2019 (Updated 1/2/2022)

Interview with Andy Cohen, 2019

Appearance on Radio Andy show

The world is a great big necklace with knots in it. And every morning I feel like the world is handing me a necklace, going, [nasal whine] "can ya get these out?"

4/1/2019 (Updated 2/14/2022)

Chicks in the Office: Bob Saget

Bob Saget on his friendship with John Mayer

He was not only at my wedding, and so was Stamos, and I kind of messed up with Stamos because he was going to give a speech, but then Mayer jumped the shark and I didn't know what to do.

4/1/2019 (Updated 11/1/2022)

Live in Singapore, 2019

Singapore Indoor Stadium

I wrote this when I was having trouble with my voice, and I just wanted to get back on the road.

3/19/2019 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Podcast interview with Jeff Ross

Excerpt from Thick Skin with Jeff Ross

But sixty years later you're still putting out these tributes to the station wagon, you know, when it comes to the design language of the guitar.

John in designer clothing for GQ photo shoot.

1/17/2019 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Article in GQ Magazine

John Mayer Explains His Own Personal Style

I'm like, man look at the pictures of you from your 20s in your early 30s. People are working that out. To every person in their 20s and their 30s: wear that hat!

2018

11/18/2018 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Interview from Complex Magazine

All Things Considered: John Mayer & Jerry Lorenzo

I got to Mac’s house and he played me this thing he had just worked on that morning, and I went, “Give me a guitar. I’m in.”

11/18/2018 (Updated 10/10/2023)

Current Mood: Season 1, Episode 6

Streamed on Instagram Live

So I'm gonna play a new song for you. Get your screen captures ready.

10/21/2018 (Updated 10/10/2023)

Current Mood: Season 2, Episode 3

Streamed on Instagram Live

The next time the ladder appears in front of you to climb out of the hamster wheel of drinking, if you're getting tired of it, take it. I climbed out. I've had a great time.

9/23/2018 (Updated 1/3/2022)

Instagram Live Stream Q&A (September 2018)

Excerpts from Live Stream Q&A

"New Light" is still becoming a bigger hit every week.

9/19/2018 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

From appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

As soon as I heard the music and fell in love with it I was like I got to play with these guys. That's how nervy I am. Most people go, “this is nice, I want to listen to this more.” I go, “get me in that band.”

9/8/2018 (Updated 1/11/2022)

Mac Miller Instagram Post

@johnmayer tribute to Mac Miller

I didn’t expect to play on his album the day he played some songs for me at his house, but when I heard “Small Worlds,” I gave it a short, chirpy little “yup,” which is the highest praise I can give a track. It means we don’t need to say another word, it’s going down.

John in tshirt during Instagram Live Stream

9/5/2018 (Updated 1/4/2022)

Instagram Live Stream: September 2018

Answering questions after Controlled Danger show

And when I hear Maren Morris, I go, man, I just wish I could live more lives than this one.

9/1/2018 (Updated 1/3/2022)

Instagram Guitar Q&A (September 2018)

Instagram Story Q&A Compilation

This is a brilliant question. YES. It's not all that uncommon. I have also been known to lovingly pat them. That's so funny. Yes. I have kissed my guitars.

8/31/2018 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Instagram story about Eminem

Single still image

It's rap you watch!

6/14/2018 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Born and Raised Instagram post

"Throwback Thursday"

The night just kept going until the sun came up. But here’s the thing about it: it was joyous.

5/10/2018 (Updated 11/17/2022)

Interview with Zane Lowe, 2018

John Mayer: 'New Light' Premiere | Apple Music

I highly encourage every artist to keep going until they fall off the Segway.

4/23/2018 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Instagram live: April 23, 2018

Answering fan questions

What song am I most proud of? Gravity, for its efficiency.

3/30/2018 (Updated 8/8/2023)

Golden Hour Instagram Post

Instagram post about Kacey Musgrave's album

One of my favorite artists in the galaxy @spaceykacey released an album today, and it happens to be her best yet.

2017

12/1/2017 (Updated 12/5/2021)

December 2017 Twitter Q&A

Twitter Q&A session

I wish I knew the exact meanings of fascism, communism, socialism, Marxism, etc. I just rely on context clues and nod along.

Layin' It Down With Steve Jordan episode artwork.

11/21/2017 (Updated 1/21/2023)

Interview with Steve Jordan

Layin' It Down With Steve Jordan, Part 1

I mean I had to learn to be loved as a human being. Learn how to love correctly.

11/21/2017 (Updated 11/2/2022)

Interview with Steve Jordan

Layin' It Down With Steve Jordan, Part 2

I mean there is a "I Don't Trust Myself With Loving You" Part Two.

11/4/2017 (Updated 5/21/2022)

Twitter Q&A (November 2017)

Twitter Q&A about Born and Raised

I fly at 37k feet over a lot of ideas and have developed a pretty good sense of when to descend to 10k, and then when to land.

11/2/2017 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Bill Evans Appreciation Post

@johnmayer Instagram post

His uptempo compositions are genius for all their left-brain harmonic invention, but the ballads are where he really connects with me; they’re tapped firmly into a buttoned up sadness, something that always feels spiritually autumnal.

10/25/2017 (Updated 1/5/2024)

Instagram live: October 2017

From hotel while on tour in Brazil

Imagine going out for a walk and none of the trees moved at all. That's the sonic equivalent of what autotune sounds like.

10/3/2017 (Updated 12/5/2021)

RIP Tom Petty Post

@johnmayer Instagram post

Tom Petty’s California is my favorite California. It’s the one he painted both photo-real and abstract.

8/8/2017 (Updated 1/5/2024)

Interview from The Bobby Bones Show

The Bobby Bones Show: Episode #75

I immediately Googled the title, “I still feel like your man," because I thought someone must have had this idea.

8/5/2017 (Updated 1/14/2023)

"Edge of Desire" Instagram Live

"Edge of Desire" Explained on Instagram Live

Not that different from [Dave Matthews Band's] "Satellite."

8/3/2017 (Updated 1/2/2022)

August 2017 Twitter Q&A

Twitter Q&A session.

My favorite lines are in some of the least popular tunes.

8/3/2017 (Updated 10/14/2023)

Edge of Desire Tweet

Single Tweet

It's about a last-ditch effort to keep a failing love. The idea that maybe you could stop talking but still continue seeing each other.

7/18/2017 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Interview with GQ Style

John Mayer Talks Supreme, Louis Vuitton, Off-White, and How to Start a T-Shirt Brand (Exclusive)

A new generation of really great designers—guys who work as professional designers for fashion houses and for retail places—are Deadheads.

7/9/2017 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Twitter Q&A (July 2017)

Twitter Q&A session with fans

Embrace "not yet." I can't tell you how important that is. So many people refuse to accept it and want to turn all the cards immediately.

6/28/2017 (Updated 1/21/2023)

Article in Rolling Stone, 2017

John Mayer on Katy Perry, Learning From the Dead, Embracing Pot

I put it where drinking used to go, and the quality of life has gone up considerably. Drinking is a fucking con. How much is enough?

6/26/2017 (Updated 1/21/2023)

Blog post from Berklee Blogs

My Afternoon in a Tree House with John Mayer

Each song is like a tree house. You spend all this time creating a new place that never existed before. It’s a place built by you, for you, and is a place you can retreat to.

6/23/2017 (Updated 1/21/2023)

Blog post from Berklee Blogs

My Day with Fame: Workshopping with John Mayer

As I met the tall, well styled rock star, all I could say was “hello” while holding back my insides screaming with terror and excitement.

6/23/2017 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Robert Hunter Appreciation

@johnmayer Instagram post

He strung the river through the back of that Brokedown Palace. He's the one who stacked the deck and rigged the games and laid the flowers out so that those who felt a certain displacement in this world could be reminded of its exquisite, faulty joy.

6/20/2017 (Updated 1/21/2023)

Article on Berklee.edu

John Mayer Shares the Stage with Student Songwriters

Mayer followed the epic workshop session with a performance of "You're Gonna Live Forever In Me" (which was inspired by a bad note he struck while practicing the Grateful Dead tune "Friend of the Devil") as well as an unreleased original, giving the students and audience a chance to see the inner-workings of his own process.

6/17/2017 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Article published in The Boston Globe

At Berklee, ex-student John Mayer turns professor

“I love teaching,” Mayer, 39, told the Globe in an interview after the clinic. The son of an English teacher and high school principal, he added with a laugh, “I would 100 percent rather teach at Berklee than do ‘American Idol’ or something.”

6/6/2017 (Updated 1/2/2022)

June 2017 Twitter Q&A

Twitter Q&A session

I made a rule not too long ago never to enter a debate on the topic of my own merits.

6/1/2017 (Updated 2/8/2023)

Interview from Guitar World, 2017

June 2017 Issue of Guitar World magazine

It's only when you take into account my ability to write songs am I even a decent enough player to be talked about in something like Guitar World.

5/20/2017 (Updated 1/17/2024)

Paramore Twitter Thread

Three tweets

<Paramore>For as much content as we have access to, we still live in a fairly closed loop. Artists reach their fans through ad-hoc channels. And even if they thrive, they don't really pick up as many new fans as they should because of these closed loops. Here's where I'm getting at... this Paramore album [After Laughter] is great. Their fans know it. But every fan of pop music needs to check it out.</Paramore>

5/6/2017

May 2017 Twitter Q&A

Twitter Q&A session

“Will you walk with me/before the morning fades?” OOF.

4/15/2017 (Updated 12/12/2021)

Facebook livestream

Fan Q&A following "Love on the Weekend" song premiere

My songwriting is about entering a trance, and a part of your brain you're not friends with, you don't know very well, supplying you with something that you can sing for the rest of your life.

4/14/2017 (Updated 12/10/2021)

Interview on World Cafe

Interview with Talia Schlanger on World Cafe (NPR)

Like Bill Murray says, "Everybody's an ass for two years when they first become a celebrity," but I didn't do my two years until later on.

4/5/2017 (Updated 12/5/2021)

Live in New York, NY 2017

Speech during performance of "Walt Grace's Submarine Test, January 1967"

"[He] totally lives, yall!"

John during interview with Charlie Rose.

4/4/2017 (Updated 1/21/2023)

Charlie Rose Interview

Interview from appearance on The Charlie Rose Show

It took me a long time to realize; people do not Google search me. People do not think about me all day. People take a glance at you and that's the takeaway.

3/24/2017 (Updated 12/6/2021)

Article published in the New York Times

John Mayer Has More to Say: The Outtakes

As I autopsy that part of my life, it turns out that I was under the impression that I was a bigger star than I was.