John Mayer recently revealed why he dropped out of the Twitterverse last fall. The reason? He was a musician who couldn’t write any music.
“I realized about a year ago that I couldn’t have a complete thought anymore, and I was a tweetaholic,” Mayer admitted while advising students at a clinic at Berklee College of Music in Boston. “I had four million Twitter followers, and I was always writing on it. And I stopped using Twitter as an outlet and I started using Twitter as the instrument to riff on, and it started to make my mind smaller and smaller and smaller. And I couldn’t write a song.”
The singer/songwriter expanded more on his social media qualms, noting “good music is its own promotion.” Read them all on RollingStone.com.
Now we know…. Hopefully JM’s time away from social media has proven worthwhile; both to his and our (his fans) benefit. Wishing him the best.
