As a songwriter it's kind of hard to listen to your own stuff with clarity.

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

There is a beautiful village in every country.

I took especially great pleasure in mathematics because of the certainty and the evidence of its arguments.

When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.

A new poll reveals that 56% of Americans believe that Wal-Mart is bad for the country, while the other 44% work there.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

The universe does not work by our rules

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.