Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.

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.

In a well-ordered universe...camping would take place indoors.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

All of this talk of recession offends me. I am delighted that bankers have less money.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.

Chicago - it's a mini-New York.

As a cause becomes more and more successful, the ideas of the people engaged in it are bound to change.

Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead!