John Mayer is praying for the day that he can appear as a guest performer on American Idol because the Grammy Award winner and his guitar have a huge crush on Idol judge Paula Abdul.

“He’s had a thing for Paula for years, but he’s weird and shy about it,” a friend of the thirty year old ex of Jessica Simpson and Jennifer Love Hewitt tells Star.

“He still listens to her old music like ‘Straight Up’ and ‘Opposites Attract.’ He likes her breathy voice and thinks it’s sexy.”

According to Star:

“When the forty-five year old former pop star released ‘Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow,’ her first single in more than a decade, John was ’so exicited.’ He said that, ‘That’s my Paula.’”