Eddie Vedder Quotes

"The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself."

"The love received is the love that is saved."

"I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk."

"Caffeine. The gateway drug."

"No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what."

"Whatever your walk of life is, I think you have to be real about it."

"It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray."

"Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward."

"I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station."

"The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this."

"It's not a bad time to be me."

"Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall."

"If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything."

"I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying."

"I think celebrities suck."

"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic."

"When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't."

"At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless."

"I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived."

"I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date."

"As far as viewpoints, I think I'm more well-rounded and definitely more educated, and probably more hopeful than I used to be. I think when you're young and you get into a cause, you get frustrated with it within a few years, or six months."

"It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals."

"I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper."

"You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer."

"The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball."

"I had actually been going to Hawaii for quite a while before I ever picked up the uke. I think with anything new you're going to get more enjoyment out of it if it comes to you quickly, and the uke facilitates that."

"There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful."

"Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable."

"When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn't us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the world, but Mudhoney were the band of that time and sound."

"I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option."