I love surprising the fans.

I'm sober now and very happy.

Life is a pre-existing condition.

I have to eat in a way that's good for me.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

We want to have a life outside of Pearl Jam, too.

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.

I should never, ever try and grow a mustache again.

There was no support system in Seattle for musicians.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.

Mad Season changed my life in a million different ways.

Am I really an author if I just put pictures in a book?

I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

We'll go to South America and play to 60,000. It's insane.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I'm amazed that people are even still wanting to listen to us.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

I really liked Stevie Ray Vaughn, so hey - I tried to look like him.

There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward.

I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

I think our fans are bigger and better students of Pearl Jam than we are.

Its extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.

Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.

It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

Duff McKagen's been a dear friend of mind for a long time, and he's a Seattlelite.

When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.

My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow.

I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.

The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.

It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.

There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.

I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

To be able to make a living doing what I love is truly a gift, and I'm thankful for that every day.

Star Anna is an American original. She sings from a place of beauty that takes me to a higher place.

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