I don't want anything to do with you.' And she says that because of something in my past. "My fear," he says, "is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say, 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. In other words, anything he has wanted to do, he has done, and he wants to do lots more.īut there is one small hitch, and it bedevils Mayer day and night, because it's largely out of his control. Most recently, he has decided he wants to be a stand-up comic and has gone onstage in pursuit of yuks. He writes a monthly column about anything that interests him and maintains his own blog. In addition to Diaz and Kelly, he has gone out with Jennifer Love Hewitt and, most tumultuously, Jessica Simpson. He has been named a Time magazine top 100 influential person. He has called a Porsche dealer in New York from Eric Clapton's estate in England and, sight unseen, bought a $134,000 Turbo S, just because it was the rock-star thing to do. King and recorded with everyone from Kanye West to the Dixie Chicks. He has played onstage with the great B.B. He has been a heartthrob singer, songwriter, and guitar player for only the past seven years, but what he has accomplished during that time is remarkable: three major-label hit albums, including Room for Squares, his first, and Continuum, his latest, as well as nine top-10 hit singles, including "No Such Thing," his first, and "Say," his latest.
Married guys have other problems, naturally, but Mayer is positive he won't have many of those. "When I get married, all that stuff will be null and void," he says.