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.'

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.

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

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I don't think anything lives up to what you envisioned.

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation.

I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision.

I want to be made better personally. That is the gig.

I think that training is the key, definitely, and I devoted my life to it.

A writer once said to me, If you ever go to America, go either to the East Coast or the West Coast: The rest is a desert full of bigots. That's what I think I'd like . . . a version of pastoral.

I miss all the shots I don't take.