John Mayer

Chronologically speaking, this part is maybe one of the only aspects of my life that truly blows my mind.

Because it's such a short period of time that felt longer to me.

I graduated in 1995, and six years later, I was playing arenas.

At that point, I was playing clubs, but I had an album out that would end up winning Grammys, and that was six years.

And you know what I always think now is like there are people who get branded misfit loser, you know, you know, in some way sort of develop mentally disabled.

No, they're not.

They're on some other track that they have no school for, you know.

No, I wasn't.

You weren't?

No, that was about my first girlfriend.

That was about the feeling, which I think was already sort of nostalgic.

I was 21 when I wrote that song and I was nostalgic for being 16.

No, that's that's one of those things where people just sort of form that idea.

It gets reinforced over the years.

No, no, no.

I had never met a celebrity when I wrote that song.

That's a good question.

Maybe she didn't.

Maybe she didn't.

To this day, maybe she didn't.