"Well you do enough talk My little hawk, why do you cry? Tell me what did you learn From the Tillamook burn Or the Fourth of July? We're all gonna die"

"There's only a shadow of me In a manner of speaking, I'm dead"

"When I was three Three, maybe four She left us at that video store"

"Found myself on Spencer's Butte Traced your shadow with my shoe Empty outline changed my view Now all of me thinks less of you"

"I forgive you mother; I can hear you And I long to be near you But every road leads to an end"

"Fuck me, I'm falling apart"

"Somewhere in the desert, there's a forest And an acre before us But I don't know where to begin"

"Some part of me was lost in your sleeve Where you hid your cigarettes"

"I know I've caused you trouble, I know I've caused you pain. But I must do the right thing; I must do myself a favour And get real, get right with the Lord."

"I want it all, I want it all for myself."

"Somewhere I lost whatever else I had."

"When I die, when I die, I'll rot. But when I live, but when I live, I'll give it all I've got."

"At least I deserve the respect of a kiss goodbye."

"I'm not fucking around."

""It's been a long long time since I've memorized your face."

"Ah, ah, Beautiful is the mother. Ah, ah, Beautiful is her son."

"Planes will crash, He'll never let you down. So maybe there's a crash coming for the ground, Seek His face, He'll never let you down. Worship grace, He'll never let you down."

"Words are futile devices."

"He dressed up like a clown for them With his face paint white and red. And on his best behavior In a dark room on the bed, He kissed them all."

"But in my best behavior, I am really just like him Look beneath the floorboards, for the secrets I have hid."

"Oh, great intentions, Covenant with the imitation Have you no conscience? I think about it now Oh, God of Progress, Have you degraded or forgot us? Where have your laws gone?"

"Rest in my arms Sleep in my bed There's a design To what I did and said"

"You gave your body to the lonely, They took your clothes. You gave up a wife and a family You gave your ghost. To be alone with me. To be alone with me You went up on a tree. I've never met a man who loved me."

"Tuesday morning at the Bible study We lift our hands and pray over your body But nothing ever happens"

"Art is... a reflection of a greater divine creation. There really is no separation."

"In the morning when you finally go And the nurse runs in with her head hung low, And the cardinal hits the window. In the morning in the winter shade, On the first of March, on the holiday, I thought I saw you breathing."

"Once when we moved away, She came to Romulus for a day. Her Chevrolet broke down. We prayed it'd never be fixed or be found."

"All the glory when He took our place, But He took my shoulders and He shook my face, And He takes and He takes and He takes."

"Oh, I am not quite sleeping. Oh, I am fast in bed."

"Thinking Outrageously, I Write in Cursive"

"No musician is indifferent to the public's perception of him, but the exuberant, logorrheic Mayer takes self-awareness to new postmodern heights. Like a football player providing color commentary on his own career, he muses constantly on his own abilities and his place in the taxonomy of pop."

"Before that it was Halo, and no one could beat him. That's pretty much his MO if he finds an interest in something -- it doesn't matter how incidental it is."

"What song do I hate? I think "Daughters," by John Mayer, would be a good candidate. I don't know why he bugs me so bad."

"Me and John, we just cool, period. ... We get in the studio and we vibe and then we make music from that point."

"One time I saw him perform live and he switched up his song at the end, like, [improvised] different chords — he remixed it...He's just not your typical guitar player. He's trying to push the envelope for the way guitarists and vocalists are heard. ... I just respect his musicality."

"He words stuff with a real, I guess it's a witty, intelligent, very human [sensibility]. I would like to grab some of those qualities...I wish he was my friend."

"Neither punk nor prom king, Mayer was a tall kid from Connecticut, driving on the freeways, chasing slippery techno women, inhabiting a world of parents and slipcovers and holidays and gracious Southeastern metropolises; he was smart, inquisitive, articulate, a touch off in places."

"John Mayer is a very talented brother and you don't know where your blessings are going to come from."

"You know, the dude is a real musician. It's like anything you ever loved in Joe Jackson or anything you ever loved in any '70s rock. You're gonna get it out of this dude. He's a real student, and it comes through in his music."

"You be the DJ, I'll be the driver, You put your feet up in the getaway car. I'm flying fast like a, a wanted man. I want you, baby, like you can't understand.Oh, love on the weekend, Love on the weekend. We found a message in a bottle we were drinking."

"He was over at my house every day between fifth grade and eighth grade."

"Oh, you can't make yourself stop dreaming Who you're dreaming of. If it's who you love, Then it's who you love."

"I was astonished at how well he played live. I had no idea he was that good."

"John wanted to take it in more of a pop direction than I did. It was like a marriage that we both knew would go bad once we started touring."

"Lightning strikes Inside my chest to keep me up at night. Dream of ways To make you understand my pain."

"I was born in the arms of imaginary friends, Free to roam, made a home out of everywhere I've been. Then you come crashing in, like the realest thing, Trying my best to understand all that your love can bring.Oh half of my heart's got a grip on the situation; Half of my heart takes time. Half of my heart's got a right mind to tell you That I can't keep loving you (can't keep loving you) Oh, with half of my heart."

"Have no fear for giving in, Have no fear for giving over. You'd better know that in the end It's better to say too much Than never say what you need to say again.Even if your hands are shaking And your faith is broken, Even as the eyes are closing, Do it with a heart wide open."

"Gravity is working against me, And gravity wants to bring me down.Oh, twice as much ain't twice as good And can't sustain like one half could. It's wanting more that's gonna send me to my knees."

"When you’re dreaming with a broken heart, The waking up is the hardest part."

"Who says I can’t be free? From all of the things that I used to be. Re-write my history. Who says I can’t be free?"