I should never, ever try and grow a mustache again.
A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys.
I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.
There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward.
I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music.
Duff McKagen's been a dear friend of mind for a long time, and he's a Seattlelite.
Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.
I really liked Stevie Ray Vaughn, so hey - I tried to look like him.
Everything I know, I stole directly from Ace Frehley, Angus Young, and Keith Richards. That's how you learn.
I love surprising the fans.
I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.
We want to have a life outside of Pearl Jam, too.
I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.
I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.
I love some kind of pressure in the air. Some kind of weirdness in the crowd, good or bad. That's what we thrive on.
Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.
It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.
Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.
Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?
There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.
Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.
Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.
Mad Season changed my life in a million different ways.
We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.
We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.
We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.
A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.
I think our fans are bigger and better students of Pearl Jam than we are.
We have a ridiculous amount of material.
I never play as well without these guys; the best I have ever been creatively has been with Pearl Jam.
