John Mayer and Katy Perry Dating: Hollywood Playboy 'Quite Happy' in New Relationship, Debunks Allison Williams Cheating Rumors

In a recent Q&A with Rolling Stone magazine, infamous Hollywood playboy and blues/rock musician John Mayer opened up about new music, life after granuloma surgery, touring, and his budding romance with pop star Katy Perry. According to 35-year-old Mayer, he's "quite happy" in his new relationship with the "Fireworks" songstress... which debunks rumors that he may have had a little fling with "Girls" starlet Allison Williams during a recent night out on the town in NYC.

Check out this portion of the Rolling Stone interview:

Then you started seeing Katy Perry, who's also very famous. That makes it hard to live a private life too. I can imagine that's kind of intensified lately.

"It makes it hard to live a life where people don't know who you are, but I haven't had any trouble in my private life at all. The only trouble I've had is maybe people geo-tagging me, but that's about it. To me it's just a matter of people knowing where you are on a given day, and I guess assessing your style when there is no style to be assessed. I don't really call that infringing on a personal life. That's just where I am, when. That's all."

How has the relationship been for you?

"It's been . . . I mean, I'm quite happy. I'm happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

And I also think that the way that the media plays a part in everyone's life has changed over the last several years. People are a lot less concerned in what's going on with other people. I think people are a lot less concerned with what's going on with the lives of celebrities, and celebrities are a little less concerned with what's going on with the lives of other people thinking about them all day [laughs].

I mean, I used to be incredibly put off by somebody taking a picture, thinking as if in some way it was it was invading my brain. But all it is is you can see where I was last weekend. That's all. So now you got a picture of where I was last weekend. That's not tremendously frightening to me.

On the outset of all this stuff in 2007 and 2008, everybody was thinking, "Well, what does this mean for me? When somebody takes my picture and they put it up on the Internet the next day and they write stuff about me, what does this mean for me? What is this going to steal from me?" And I think time has shown that nothing will be stolen from you. It's just a photograph of you and your dumb scarf that you put on because it wouldn't fit in your suitcase. Cool. If you want to "style police" my day off, that's fine."

Check out the full interview here.

The duo were rumored to be dating earlier this summer.

Meanwhile, rumors were beginning to swirl that Mayer had hooked up with actress Allison Williams in NYC last week. According to the Daily Mail, the duo were spotted entering Manhattan's Jane Hotel Friday evening (Jan 25) after grabbing dinner with pals at El Toro Blanco in the West Village... they didn't leave until early the following morning. One onlooker revealed to the New York Daily News, "Allison and John walked in together and separated to talk to respective friends... They then made their way back to each other, and John has his arm around Allison's waist. They were talking together for a bit before leaving."

But according to another source close to Williams, the pair are just cordial acquaintances (considering Mayer is good pals with Williams' boyfriend, CollegeHumor founder and CEO Ricky Van Veen) -  "Allison and her boyfriend are good friends with John and Katy," said a source close to Williams, according to NY Daily News. "Her boyfriend was with them for the entire evening."

As Mayer points out in the Rolling Stone interview...

Who do you consider your best friends?

"A lot of them are comedy writers, movie writers. I'm actually at my friend Ricky Van Veen's place, who started CollegeHumor. I met him when I got off the road in 2010. It's almost like to certain people, the fact that I'm a musician is known but not really understood on a certain level. I feel like when some of my dearest friends now come to a show one day, they'll have a terrible time renegotiating that that's who I am. Like, "Oh, right, you play onstage in front of thousands of people."