I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.

I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

"Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

Heaven and hell could wait.He had paradise right there in his arms.

The fourth approved approach for the problem of frontally attacking a guarded wormhole was to shoot the officer who suggested it.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.

Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.

The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.

Successful people willingly do what unsuccessful people are unwilling to do.

Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.