After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Deryn put her own arms around herself, but it didn't feel the same."Barking spiders, " she muttered softly,

Reason is the life of the law nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason.

Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

The less [government] the better.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Thou shalt not transgress the carrying capacity

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

I commonly went ashore every day, either upon business, or to recreate myself in the fields, which were very pleasant, and the more for a shower of rain now and then, that ushers in the wet season.