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

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" There's been a lot of role reversal going on in the band. The roles people have been playing for a long time will always be there, but everybody's willing to try on different outfits. "

" I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good. "

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

" I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song. "

" I think people will always love a heavy Sabbath riff because it's fundamental to rock. "

" There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time. "

" I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about. "

" For the most part, I really love being in a collaborative thing. And in a collaborative thing if you have a singer as good as Sean Smith or Eddie Vedder, you kind of think, well, why don't you just go ahead and let them sing? People seem to really like it. "

" I'm in a rock band - I don't have a day job! I am spoiled... a lot. "

" When you're moved by music, that's always good. "

" I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music. "

" I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way. "

" I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the cities feel a little more natural, people like to live there more rather than moving out and dividing up another piece of land that shouldn't be touched. "

" It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other. "

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

" But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process. "

" It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think. "

" You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience 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. "

" It may take me a long time before I feel 'ready' to tour as a lead singer. I may never be ready... we'll just have to see. "

" A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees. "

" And I look forward to the time when I can become more indulgent with my songwriting. But this band is a family, and it's a process that we have to grow with together. "

" On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising. "

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

" You know, at 35 or at 38 or 40 you really start to see what your body could look like if you just don't do anything all winter long. So that's another motivating factor, our vanity. "

" Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs. "