I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.

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.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

I sighed and deleted the message, imagining the dirty clothes multiplying like rabbits, because that’s what they do when I’m not around.

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages.

A young man should ask himself not if it is his duty to go to the heathen, but if he may dare stay at home. The command is so plain: “Go.”

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

You know, dark matter matters.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

Good appearance doesn’t make a real man. The important thing is to do your best and keep your promises. A real man should show his faith in actions (rather) than words.