John Mayer on blues guitar, 2003

There was a certain time that I got to in my playing where I shut off my ears to superfluous blues playing. The thing about blues is that the minute it becomes self-indulgent, the minute you repeat yourself, the minute you are just doing it because you love doing it, everybody can hear it--and I don’t ever want to hit that point. There’s nothing I’d love more than to solo all night--it would be great. But it doesn’t hold people, and the last thing I want is to have people refuse that trust.

From an Acoustic Guitar magazine cover story