“I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.” ThinkingWayKindShowsShowing Off Author:Eddie Vedder
“Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.” PeopleWayKindSometimesEnjoyWealthPayHugeInvolvedCostNewsManagementDollarsCuriousCorporateJustifyCeoBizarreSalaryLivelihood Author:Eddie Vedder
“I used to kind of blame someone for not being able to get through that - I'm talking about the addiction part - but I've had a few experiences recently where you don't blame the person anymore.” KindPersonsAbleUsedTalkingBlameAddictionBlame Someone Author:Eddie Vedder
“One thing you might suggest to a young band is don't get involved in any kind of long-term contract because everything changes on a bimonthly basis: The way people hear music and access it, the way it is distributed.” PeopleWayKindLongMightYoungTermOne ThingInvolvedBandBasesAccessLong TermContractsThings ChangeGet Involved Author:Eddie Vedder
“I get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.” IfsWantShouldKindArtMadeSaidUseKidsUsedStuffClassPerspectiveLessonsDrawsWorriedRulersVocalGet RealArt Class Author:Eddie Vedder
“I didn't respond to the kind of sarcastic tone. It felt like some of the Sarah Palin speech was written as though it were a Saturday Night Live newscast. Maybe that's because she looks very similar . . . She's got her Tina Fey thing going.” KindNightSarcasticSaturdaySaturday NightPalinSaturday Night Live Author:Eddie Vedder
“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. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there .” PeopleWorldKindPresidentInterestingBaseballLeagueLittle ThingsMajor League Author:Eddie Vedder
“The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.” KindRepublicanCanvasBlank Canvas Author:Eddie Vedder
“I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.” ThinkingWayKindTwoShowsThreeWalksNiceWeekShareStrangerDaily LifeComplimentThree TimesShowing Off Author:Eddie Vedder
“I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.” PeopleKnowsKindI CanKnow HowImagineThese DaysPaparazzi Author:Eddie Vedder
“It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.” PeopleKindFunCoupleSingingSingersVocalPoignant Author:Eddie Vedder
“I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.” WayWantFeelsKindRealityCausesSidesGrewGrew UpConnectionsWorkersDocks Author:Eddie Vedder
“Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.” KindLongDifferentEnergyForceStuffAudienceRecordsShotsDifferent KindsPlaying MusicUntamed Author:Eddie Vedder
“You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.” KindArtistEnvironmentProductsListsGreat Artist Author:Eddie Vedder
“It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave.” FeelsWritingTryingKindMadeWantedSongEmotionSituationCarLike YouLeavingMoodRememberedBad Situations Author:Eddie Vedder
“If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.” IfsKindAbleOpportunityLostOceanStudiosPlaying Music Author:Eddie Vedder
