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John Mayer é o entrevistado da Playboy americana de março. Em uma longa e deliciosa conversa com o editor Rob Tannenbaum, o guitarrista fala do desejo de ser um rock star, dos relacionamentos com Jennifer Aniston e Jessica Simpson, pornografia, internet e mais otras cositas.

Alguns trechos da entrevista de John criaram polêmica. No Twitter, Mayer se desculpou por ter usado termos raciais ofensivos [não vou contar quais, leia a entrevista], se referido à ex, Jessica Simpson, de modo pouco educado [não achei nada demais o elogio à performance dela na cama, grandes merdas] e falado sobre pornografia e masturbação. Claro, ninguém toca uma e nem vê foto de mulher nua na intrntzz, né? Puritanismo vagabundo.

Abaixo destaquei alguns trechos que considerei campeões. Sim, gosto das músicas de JM e esta entrevista reforçou a imagem que tenho dele: alguém que tinha um sonho, foi lá, conseguiu e agora tem como desafio continuar uma pessoa comum, como todos nós.

Sobre o que ainda não tem apesar de possuir fama e fortuna:

I could make anybody understand that my life is not all rainbows and unicorns, but why would I want to? I’m sort of selling them the idea that it’s rainbows and unicorns. I could explain that, in fact, I’m not a douche bag, but that would be at the expense of believing in magic. I don’t want to tear down the facade. People want to imagine that if they get a record deal, they can buy a Ferrari. People need that. I don’t want to take that away from people. Anything I don’t have is a direct descendant of the things I do have. I mean, let’s say there’s a 12 percent chance I’ll never marry and have kids because the music career fucked me in some way. If that’s the case, I still know it’s my calling. I hold out hope that there’s a way to be a supernatural being onstage and an extremely natural being at home.

Pornografia e relacionamentos:

Internet pornography has absolutely changed my generation’s expectations. How could you be constantly synthesizing an orgasm based on dozens of shots? You’re looking for the one photo out of 100 you swear is going to be the one you finish to, and you still don’t finish. Twenty seconds ago you thought that photo was the hottest thing you ever saw, but you throw it back and continue your shot hunt and continue to make yourself late for work. How does that not affect the psychology of having a relationship with somebody? It’s got to.

O medo de não casar:

What if I meet a woman and it’s love at first sight, and this woman has the greatest night of her life by telling me to fuck off because she knows my reputation? I always say, “Turning me down is the new sleeping with me.” What is a guy supposed to say to a girl who says “You do this all the time”? Girls always say that. Sometimes they say “I’ve been warned about you.” But I can undo that in a couple of days. I have a line for that: “Keep your warning for a while; let’s take it slow.”

O fato de o Twitter, supostamente, ter sido a causa do break-up com JA:

If Jennifer Aniston knows how to use BitTorrent I’ll eat my fucking shoe. One of the most significant differences between us was that I was tweeting. There was a rumor that I had been dumped because I was tweeting too much. That wasn’t it, but that was a big difference. The brunt of her success came before TMZ and Twitter. I think she’s still hoping it goes back to 1998. She saw my involvement in technology as courting distraction. And I always said, “These are the new rules.”

Sobre ainda amar JA:

Yes, always. I’ll always be sorry that it didn’t last. In some ways I wish I could be with her. But I can’t change the fact that I need to be 32.