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

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.

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.

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

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.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

It doesn't matter where I am - China will stay in me. I don't know how far I can still walk on this road and what is the limit.

These newspaper reporters... ever since Sullivan versus New York Times... have got a license to lie.

I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.

I created a vision of David in my mind and simply carved away everything that was not David.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

My boy! Smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life, and if you decide in advance not to smoke, i can only feel sorry for you.

Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?