He was “a Mack Truck without brakes.” Tabloid fame was “a human-growth hormone” and “extracurricular stuff” anyway, Mr. Mayer said. In late 2014, as he began writing what would become “The Search for Everything,” out April 14, Mr. Mayer realized: “I’m a young guy. Let’s write the big ones that we are capable of writing.”Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAnd that’s how John Mayer ended up dancing with pandas. “You can even break ‘bad boy’ into good bad boy and bad bad boy — I somehow managed to become a bad version of a bad boy.”Since splitting with Ms. Perry, he’s hardly been out at all, he insisted, though he does fiddle around on an exclusive dating app. “It’s not pretty, those words,” Mr. Mayer said in the studio as he worked on final touches.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2017 09:00 UTC