Jason Mraz reveals why he doesn't come out and why he is not as sexually experienced as other men his age

Wearing a straw hat and a purple shirt, Jason Mraz smiles as he plays a hand-painted acoustic guitar on stage.

With his relaxed, idiosyncratic and confident melodies, you always get the impression that singer-songwriter Jason Mraz has everything under control.

But the “Lucky” singer feels like his “life is just beginning,” as he told actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson in a recent episode of Dinner with me Podcasts.

Although Mraz hinted at his bisexual identity in a 2018 poem, it took a few years (not to mention a divorce and a period of Dancing with the stars) so that the 47-year-old feels completely comfortable talking about her bisexuality in public.

His path to acceptance was in part due to his conservative upbringing in Virginia, though he added that his parents are now “extremely supportive.”

“In the ’90s, being gay was the punchline of a joke and I didn’t want to be the punchline of a joke,” he explained, adding that he “kept his nose down” and “didn’t really have many sexual experiences in high school.”

As a student at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City—where Ferguson also happened to take classes—Mraz admitted that he, too, wasn’t quite sure who he was.

“(I’m this) skinny, scrawny 18-year-old boy from New York,” he explained. “I don’t even know what to flirt with, who to flirt with, how to flirt. The romance in my songs was just a copy of other romance in songs, as if those were the things you sing about to please other people.”

After high school, Mraz was working as a janitor in Virginia when he was struck by the urge to head west and seek inspiration in the California sun. The move not only boosted his career, but also put him in touch with people who eventually encouraged him to come out.

“I met a community of people who saw me in a new way that I had never seen before, and I liked how I was seen and heard,” Mraz said.

Still, there was a part of him that “carried with me the conservative mindset that I grew up with, and it was very difficult to ignore that or break out of it.”

Mraz is having fun in his new era of dating and is open about his attraction to both men and women.

The only difference, he explained, is that he “has little experience, while other people his age may have more experience.”

And even though he’s the man behind gorgeously lovey-dovey tunes like “I’m Yours” (which Ferguson actually played at his wedding to Justin Mikita), Mraz is still looking for the one.

“I can’t say I’ve found love yet,” he admitted.

But it is clear that nothing will shake his optimism. As he sings on a song from his latest record Mysterious, magical, rhythmic, radical ride: “Imagine the life we can create / How lucky we are when we get things going.”

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