John Mayer has been out of commission lately. Not that we’re complaining. Turns out neither is he. In his first interview in over a year, the singer-songwriter told Ellen DeGeneres yesterday that his infamous Playboy and Rolling Stone interviews in 2010 made him reflect on his life and become an adult. “I did a couple of really dumb interviews and it woke me up,” he said. “I lost my head for a little while. I lost touch and I didn’t want to ask for directions.” John Mayer on Ellen John said he needed to act 34 “instead of 28 for the fifth year” and escape to small-town Montana where he recorded his new album, Born and Raised . The experience of living and recording out there “rocketed” him into adulthood, with Mayer saying he needed “a few years just to figure it out.” As for Born and Raised , out next week, it’s his “honest and cohesive” album yet, with John saying that leaving the spotlight after relationships with ” sexual napalm ” herself Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Aniston was the best thing he ever did. “I live in Montana, in the middle of nowhere,” he said. “It’s really excellent… you get to a certain age where you prepare for happiness, but you sometimes don’t remember to get happy. I remembered how to get happy.” Sounds remarkably un- douchebag -like, doesn’t it? Who is this Dances With Wolves-like man and what has he done with John Mayer?
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John Mayer Returns to Spotlight, Wears Awesome Hat, Waxes Poetic About Life on Ellen
