If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

Valek coalesced from the shadows and wrapped me in his long lean arms. I soaked in his musky smell, listening to his heart beat. Strong and steady. No indication that he had been sneaking around.

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

No concept is a carrier of life.

I'm Eddie Vedder and I sing. I do.

In some ways, there's no typical day with all the shoots and travel and projects, but I do try and stop by my studio every day.

The tree that growes slowly, keepes it selfe for another.

Our shared world is humanly unquantifiable and ideologically confused. Which one of them is capable of implementing the most recognizable harm or good?

Everything in life should be approached as a project. Every project can be broken down into just three things: Action Steps, Backburner Items, and References.

It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it.