“And I just want to say that my full-time job, being—this is true—being a musician is almost a side job to my full-time job of not screwing up… I’m on a track where as soon as you get in a room, the room is full of things to take you out of the room. “Now that you’ve made it, here are a plethora of things you can do to not make it. Here are a… Here’s the Out door…” and… It’s a fill-in-the-blank you know. It’s like mad libs.
Umm, this is a song about… making sure you still love yourself… making sure you still have your head on, making sure you still say no the way your mom would say no. And I will need it every damn day of my life because it’s easier to mess up than it is to stay here.” - John Mayer, 2005
Where people weigh realities more than ideals, can you still find the courage to say “one day, I will fly”?
