Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

The love received is the love that is saved.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

The way we're attached to our phones these days, they buzz and twitch in our pockets, and we have to look and see if it was a text, a voicemail, or an e-mail. We're almost like lab rats. I tried to eschew the whole cell phone theory until I had kids; then, I had to be reachable at all times.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

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.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.