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John Mayer: 'You can't make music as a famous person'

Angus Batey, The Guardian, 19 November 2009

"I BASICALLY VISUALISED a record called Battle Studies as a way to sum up the last two years of my life: what I've learned and what I've seen and what I think I know," says John Mayer, folding himself into an armchair in a recording studio in Hollywood.

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