Unless you live under a rock and haven’t been paying your cable bill, you know that John Mayer has recently said some things that should have gone unsaid. Now, as you can see from the video above and the excerpt below, Mayer has apologized. Check it out:
In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and the people that love me. And I went, as I had begun to do, into a wormhole of selfishness, and greediness, and arrogance in thinking that if I would just continue to be speedy and witty and pull together as many fast words and phrases that I could.
That I could be clever enough to buy myself another day without thinking that anybody would find me, pin me down, and say, “you’re a creep.”
When I should have just given that up and played the guitar a little more, I didn’t. So I decided that I’d try to be as clever as possible all the time. And I did that at the expense of people I love, and that feels absolutely terrible. It feels worse than any headline I thought I could get out of.
It’s just not worth being clever. I just quit. I quit the sound bite game, I quite the media game. I’m out. I’m done. I just want to play my guitar to whoever is around. If that means there’s less people because I somehow think that if I’m not witty and I don’t come up with the newest little clever thing, then that’s fine. I just want to play my guitar again with this band.
Are you trying too hard to be clever?