If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

We’re super fortunate in Pearl Jam to have such loyal fans...who really want to come & see us play.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

Measure your success by the number of people who envy you.

What you think and how you think, influences what you ink and how you ink.

No one is more sensitive to the issue of overeating than the creator of Stuart Smalley.

While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

People are still crazy about Python after twenty-five years, which I find hard to believe.