I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

You go to a show and you know the crowd is there because they like the music, not because everybody else was going. That's a good feeling. You look out there and you know, these are our people.

There really is a certain magic that happens when you're in the studio. And it's important in life to feel that magic: to feel that there is something greater moving all this along.

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.

Iran is taking over Iraq.

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

Socialist society is a society of officials.

People look up to me as somebody who is able to switch the image of our country from negative to positive.

An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws that they are sworn to uphold.

People ask me all the time, "What kind of father are you?" I won't know until my kids are grown.

I cleaned the attic with the wife the other day. Now I can't get the cobwebs out of her hair.