Random Thoughts
Mayer has a childlike lucidity about him, as if he never outgrew the candor and wonder that comes with being 12 years old. Never at a loss for words on any subject, Mayer’s clearheadedness and forthright nature gives him the ability to reflexively take control of the conversation and run with it, musing this way and that with his thoughts.
Mayer on relationships: “I don’t understand cheating at all. I’d prefer to have an agreement with a girl to call me when she felt like cheating. Her hand could be on the guy’s zipper as long as she had the phone in the other hand, saying, ‘I wanna break up.’”
On his audience: “I’m glad to see it growing and changing to people more my own age, people who get it. When I first started playing out, my audience consisted of drunk schoolteachers who would tell me how much I reminded them of their son and then they’d grab my ass.”
This candor also bleeds over into his stage persona where, when it comes to jamming with other musicians, he has been accused by some of subterfuge. Mayer admits that when he heard that bit of criticism he had to get a dictionary and look up the word.
“Subterfuge? What’s subterfuge?” he says, mimicking page flipping with his hands. “Oh, ‘stealing the spotlight away from other people.’ OK, I see.”
