While grappling with the fallout of his disastrous interviews, Mayer hid away from the spotlight for two years to do some soul searching on a ranch in Montana.

"I had nothing to say — I was going through a time in my life where I didn't really want to share what was going on, but I didn't want to be boring," the "Shadow Days" singer told NPR when he resurfaced in 2012 to promote his comeback album Born and Raised (via People). Calling the interviews a "complete miscalculation," Mayer added, "I wasn't prepared to be honest, but I knew that I had to be open. When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage."

"I was just a jerk. And it's hard for people to process that," the "Why Georgia" singer later admitted to CBS News, explaining that a lack of maturity attributed to his off-putting behavior. "I wish that I grew up a year every year of my life, and I didn't....I was 24 for six years."

During his 2017 profile with The New York Times, Mayer candidly reflected, "What has to happen for a guy to believe that he's totally well-adjusted and be that far out of touch? My GPS was shattered, just shattered."

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