'I'm self-centered': John Mayer says he has a 'horrible existence' because he can't stop thinking about his work

By Dailymail.com Reporter

Published: 15:26 EDT, 15 April 2017 | Updated: 16:51 EDT, 15 April 2017

 John Mayer is obsessed with himself.

The Free Fallin hitmaker confessed that he is 'self-centered' but insists he doesn't think everything he does is great.

He said: 'Well, like, I'm about myself, I'm self-centered, but I don't think everything I do is great. But I think about everything I do all of the time. More, all the time. All I do is think about what I do. Horrible, it's a horrible existence.'

'I'm self-centered': John Mayer says he has a 'horrible existence' because he can't stop thinking about his work; he is seen performing in New York last week

'I'm self-centered': John Mayer says he has a 'horrible existence' because he can't stop thinking about his work; he is seen performing in New York last week

The 39-year-old singer credits music for helping to give him some sort of peace.

He added: 'But then I'll go in the studio, and I'll come back and listen and I'll go, "Oh, that is a great drumbeat. Listen to that guitar tone.

'"Listen to that." And then when I sing on top of it, I go, "I don't believe that for a second." And so I don't finish it because I don't buy it. Like if I don't buy it, no one else is gonna buy it. I go, "That's not me."'

One of the most personal songs on his latest album is In The Blood, which he feels is an 'anthem for him'.

Honest: The Free Fallin hitmaker confessed that he is 'self-centered' but insists he doesn't think everything he does is great

Honest: The Free Fallin hitmaker confessed that he is 'self-centered' but insists he doesn't think everything he does is great

Katy Perry's ex shared to NPR: 'I won't talk too much about it ever, for some reason. I guess I made a deal with myself that if I was gonna go that honest on a song, I wasn't gonna necessarily be a liability to it and color it in. But suffice to say that when I heard that one come back, it was like, holy - had a fist in the air.

'When you're writing, you're just trying to hear a part of yourself that you can identify - identify itself to you.

' When I listened to that back, it was like an anthem for me, about me, and I went - I just had a fist in the air for any time it would play, I'd just be like - "there it is."'

 

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