John Mayer

So if you were my one and only high school girlfriend, that was actually about you.

And this happens a lot with songs, right?

So I've made a rule.

I guess I always had a rule that I would never tell anyone.

I don't write songs about people.

I don't write them for people or about people.

I might use a relationship that inspires me to write something.

So yeah, even if I was writing a song because of someone, it's like that goes away and I'm left with the song.

So I'm not... I don't like telling anyone that a song is...

about somebody because most of the time it's not and it takes people away from themselves because they're just visualizing who i'm writing about but the songs come out they mean things to people sometimes people think it's about one person other sometimes it hurts the song sometimes the song doesn't do as well because people go well he's just petty and i go that's got nothing to do with that but i'd much rather keep the sanctity of these songs intact and have a couple of them

kind of burn a couple of them because people think it's about one person and it's not, because it's really important.

The most important thing in my life now is, are my songs.

And so when I go play songs now, I'm playing songs that I see people in the crowd are reliving their life.

It ain't about anyone but the people I'm singing to.

It's now about their college years.

It's about their sick family member who died.

It's about their fight with cancer and how they beat it.

These songs now for people are these waypoints in their lives.

It's not about any one person.

The first three records in my life was just like proving, proving, and you should.