I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

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.

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.

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

The whole fairground with all its memories would soon be smashed into the dust.

An entrepreneur is someone that steals office supplies from home and brings them to work.

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

Spelling mistakes in a letter is like a bug on a white shirt.

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

Authenticity is more than speaking; Authenticity is also about doing. Every decision we make says something about who we are.