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.

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.

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.

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.

Positive thinking and negative thinking cannot operate at the same level in your mind, one needs to be the master and the one you feed it more will rule over the other.

You see dear it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was really made from his funny bone.

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically fulfilled.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

[It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one.

I learned early that if I wanted to achieve anything in life, I'd have to do it myself. I learned that I had to be accountable.

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

It's not good to meet you heroes. The humanity in them or the a**hole in them will bring it down. And you don't want to do that.

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.

For everyday you just need one makeup element. People dress so casual today and we're living in a time where almost anything goes.