John Mayer: I could have fucked a lot more girls

I originally played music because I was an underdog,
because I didn’t want to be in school, and it always had this quality of an uprising.
When you first start out, you want people to know you.
There is a quality of the unknown that is very sexy—like thinking, There might
be a girl in this crowd who will have a conversation with me because she knows my music.
For me, it has never been about fucking lots of girls.
I could have fucked a lot more girls in my life
if I hadn’t been trying so hard to get them to like me.

- So how has that changed?

I’m no longer playing music so I can walk into a party and talk to chicks
because people know who I am now. In fact, now I have a sort of negative
connotation with that. It’s a headache, you know?

John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston

- Meeting girls is a headache? You have to explain that.

I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it.
If I date somebody and I doesn’t work out, it’s another nightmare for me.
I don’t like the way the odds are stacked.
If I date nine more girls before I get married—which I think would be
completely appropriate—that would be nine more spats of character
assassination. I don’t equate sex with release, I equate it with tension.
It’s given me a lot of pause.
Somewhere in my brain it has probably really fucked me up.

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