#mo

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#abuse #actually #better #extreme #face

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. ↗

— John Mayer

#heart #mind #moment #musicians #own

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#moral #people #religious #religious people #secular

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. ↗

— John Mayer

#based #comes #day #emotion #feels

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. ↗

— John Mayer

#assuming #currently #emotion #emotional #experiencing

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits. ↗

— John Mayer

#impress #mother #pursuits #trying #words

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. ↗

— John Mayer

#becoming #completely #every #everything #front

I'm willing to make compromises based on someone I think is the one, but I think it's psychologically important to people when they're famous to be the only famous person they know. ↗

— John Mayer

#compromises #famous #famous person #i #i think

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. ↗

— John Mayer

#charity #charity work #done #music #other

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care. ↗

— John Mayer

#actually #because #bold #care #confident