John Mayer seems to have found more than just a new life calling. The artist who once told Rolling Stone he was looking for “the Joshua Tree of vaginas” seems to have found a new life perspective – not to mention sympathy for the no-longer-touring Justin Bieber. Mayer took to Twitter on Sunday with an intriguing proposition: ask him anything, and he would answer. Mayer then began to reTweet and respond to some of his fan’s most pressing questions, including questions like “Do I send the text?” to which he replied, “You know you’re going to. So yes.” Other curious fans were more interested in Mayer’s own creative process, and asked him age-old questions about what it means to create. “How do you defeat the creative block in your mind when you know you have something you want to create or in my case write? one Twitter user wrote. Mayer replied, “Songs don’t come when you visualise yourself having another song. They come when you can’t go another day without expressing how you feel.” And on Monday, Mayer decided to turn his advice toward a fellow musical colleague Justin Bieber, who had announced earlier that day that he would be cancelling the remainder of his Purpose world tour. Amid a flurry of complaints and tears from Bieber fans, Mayer added his two cents to the conversation. “When someone pulls remaining dates of a tour, it means they would have done real damage to themselves if they kept going,” he tweeted. “We’ve lost so many great artists lately. I give Justin (a thumbs up) for realizing it was time to call it. You should too.” In a 2012 interview with Rolling Stone, Mayer explained his take on celebrity and social media and the ways in which both have brought him both closer and more alienated from his fan base. “When I send a poop joke out on Twitter, every single time, people write back, ‘LOL, that’s why I love you. You’re not like every other bullshit celebrity,’” he said. “It shows an artist detaching from the matrix of trying to micromanage perfection. It’s about not caring. So, it’s not really about poop at all.” Published in Daily Times, July 27th 2017.