Quotes by Eddie Vedder

“I dont need drugs to make my life tragic”

“The love received is the love that is saved.”

“I know someday youll have a beautiful life. I know youll be a sun in somebody elses sky. But why cant it be mine?”

“Its an art to live with pain...mix the light into gray.”

“Its an art to live with pain... mix the light in into grey.--Love Boat Captain--”

“I think celebrities suck.”

“I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he dont allow us our voice, thats all Im saying.”

“Its easily the best stuff weve done but also some of the hardest stuff. Its very aggressive, because again, its kind of a product of what its like to be an American these days. Its pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud.”

“Its not quite done. Im hoping to finish the last of the songs while Im down (in South America). Im bringing my tape machines and all that down. If I can come back and finish the last few songs in January, then it will be out in April or something.”

I had a long talk with Bruce Springsteen on a rooftop during the Vote for Change tour (in 2004). And it boiled down to this: That guy you used to be, he’s still in the car. He’ll always be in the car. Just don’t let him drive. He might be shouting out directions. But whatever you do, don’t let him get behind the wheel.

If he cant sleep, how will he ever dream?

Society, youre a crazy breed.

[When asked about his thoughts on gods]I think its like a movie that was way too popular. Its a story thats been told too many times and just doesnt mean anything. Man lived on the planet — [placing his fingers an inch apart], this is 5000 years of semi-recorded history. And God and the Bible, that came in somewhere around the middle, maybe 2000. This is the last 2000, this is what were about to celebrate [indicating about an 1/8th of an inch with his fingers]. Now, humans, in some shape or form, have been on the earth for three million years [pointing across the room to indicate the distance]. So, all this time, from there [gesturing toward the other side of the room], to here [indicating the 1/8th of an inch], there was no God, there was no story, there was no myth and people lived on this planet and they wandered and they gathered and they did all these things. The planet was never threatened. How did they survive for all this time without this belief in God? Id like to ask this to someone who knows about Christianity and maybe you do. That just seems funny to me.

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. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something

I know I was born and I know that Ill die... The in between is mine.I Am Mine

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 persons day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

Im trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

Its a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

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 arent cool, just to establish themselves. Thats what adolescence is about. Theyre gonna go through that no matter what.

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 - thats when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.