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.

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.

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.

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

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

To think well of every other man's condition and to dislike our own is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Why hang out with celebrities when I can hang out with the people who made me one?

Nobody's perfect... Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him.

Leaders honor their core values, but they are flexible in how they execute them.

Who has magnificent self-confidence And fears nothing that exists? The man who has attained to truth And lives free of error.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

I actually stopped working out because I don't want to lose my jelly.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.