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

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.

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.

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.

I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions toward us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.

I don't do quagmires.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

Despite what many nutritionists have preached for years, rapid weight-loss diets can be healthy if done correctly and can work wonders on reducing pounds and inches in just days.