The Chart-Topping, Heartbreaking John Mayer Turns 35! Look Back at His Hits and Lovely Ladies Through the Years

We're guessing this shot may have inspired Mayer's just-look-at-me-now anthem "No Such Thing" from his wildly popular debut album Room for Squares. Now, at 35, he's living the life: making hit record after hit record, touring the world, and loving some lovely ladies. Take that, high school!

Mayer’s debut album remains the top-selling album of his career, with such hits as "Why Georgia," "83," "No Such Thing," and “Your Body Is a Wonderland.”

Hewitt has long been considered the inspiration for Mayer’s hit “Your Body Is a Wonderland.”  However, on VH1 Storytellers, Mayer said the song was written about his first girlfriend when he was 14 years old. Plus, Room for Squares was released in 2001, and Hewitt and Mayer didn’t date until 2002. Hewitt, however, has a great sense of humor about the rumors, telling EW, “My body is far from a wonderland. My body is more like a pawnshop. There's a lot of interesting things put together, and if you look closely you'd probably be excited, but at first glance, not so much.”

After his Grammy win and chart-topping album, Mayer was in high demand, often performing live on radio and television. The ladies loved his crazy-scrunchy-guitar-solo face and dreamy lyrics even more in person! Cue the swooning!

Mayer picked up the music industry’s top honor for “Your Body Is a Wonderland” in 2003 for Best Male Pop Vocal. He only beat out a few other slightly more recognizable artists like, you know, Sting... James Taylor... Elton John. Not too shabby.

This superhot couple started tongues wagging about a potential relationship back in mid-2006. Once they showed up together at a New Year’s Eve party, fans and tabloids went nuts. A very PDA-prone couple, Mayer—who has constantly gotten himself in trouble with his big mouth—once referred to his ex-girlfriend as “sexual napalm.” The chemistry of the two pop stars was undeniable, and though they broke up a few times and reunited, alas, it wasn’t meant to be. The two officially split in May 2007.

Ah, young love! Look at these giddy pics of Mayer walking hand in hand with Friday Night Lights’ beauty Minka Kelly back in October 2007. The two were spotted together at a Knicks game on November 1, 2007, but People.com reported the two quietly split sometime in December.

We all want what’s best for the lovely Jennifer Aniston—especially after enduring the endless media coverage of her breakup with her ex-husband Brad Pitt… and every other dude she’s ever dated. We were very happy when she hooked up with Vince Vaughn. He’s funny! He seems normal! Yay! But maybe after a couple of serious relationships and breakups, maybe Jen just wanted to have some fun with a little man candy nugget named John Mayer. The couple dated on and off in 2008 and 2009, and he continues to call their breakup one of the hardest things he’s ever been through. A source told Us Weekly that his song “Shadow Days” from the album Born and Raised is a “farewell letter” to Aniston. Awwww.

John Mayer and Taylor Swift were romantically linked in 2009 and 2010 after their sweet little duet on Mayer’s song “Half of My Heart.” The age difference between these two definitely raised eyebrows—he was 32, she was 19—not to mention their very different personalities. But the news with this couple became way more interesting once they broke up and Swift’s scathing song “Dear John” hit the airwaves. Swift had told Yahoo, "Every single song is like a road map to what that relationship stood for, with little markers that maybe everyone won't know, but there are things that were little nuances of the relationship, little hints.” Mayer later told Rolling Stone that Taylor’s little snarky song move was not cool in his book. He said he was “humiliated” by the song and “it made me feel terrible." Ouch!

Mayer famously took a hiatus to reassess his partying image, big-mouth-itis and other bad behavior by taking off to Montana. He hoped this time away would help him “act his age.” Once he returned, he found a kindred spirit in pop star Katy Perry, who is going through some changes of her own after a split from Russell Brand. The two have been linked together for several months, and fans are scratching their heads as to why Katy would go down this particular road after such a painful breakup. Perhaps the kind people at E! can help you figure it out with their list of “Six Reasons Katy Perry Is Super Smart for Dating John Mayer.” Heh. So are they or aren’t they? Well, as of last weekend, they were seen canoodling!!