I like the music of both John Mayer and Coldplay, so I found this quote by JM interesting.
When I started to get down to the music that really moved me, I realized that it wasn’t about putting your pinky on your lip and going, “Ahhh, very clever!’” I like that sometimes, but I felt like I’d done it enough — people know I can turn a phrase. How about saying instead, like Chris Martin says, “And the truth is, I miss you”? That shatters you to pieces.