Rockstar Entrepreneur

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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.