John Mayer: The Sob Rock Interview

“I don't really make records unless I've caught a new mission statement for what the message and the music should be,” John Mayer says about reinventing himself on his eighth studio album Sob Rock. “The reason my records are so different thematically is because I have to wait until I catch a new script idea.” Ahead of his first album since 2017’s The Search for Everything, the veteran singer-songwriter opens up to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about expressing himself creatively as if he were a film director, how his view on love has changed in his forties, and his close bond with Shawn Mendes.