“I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.” KnowsWantFeelsLongMomentsLightBeautifulEvilGoneTakenAirPlanetsHugeMountainLandscapeSmokingOver ItLight UpSomething Beautiful Author:Eddie Vedder
“These pop songs almost feel like tabloid journalism, in a way. It's c**p that people seem to like. And I don't know if it has meaning. I don't know if one of the pop songs of the summer has any fibre in it. People are consuming it, and is it healthy?... Maybe there's some healthy property or some restorative property that I'm not receiving. It seems like it has a really high fructose content.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayFeelsSeemsSongHealthySummerPropertyPopsJournalismReceivingConsumingTabloidsPop Song Author:Eddie Vedder
“Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.” KnowsWellsShoesProducersOh Well Author:Eddie Vedder
“You don't love me. If you really knew me, you wouldn't love me. You love who you think I am. And don't pretend that you know me. Because I don't even know myself.” IfsThinkingKnowsKnow MeYou Don't Love Me Author:Eddie Vedder
“Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.” KnowsOrderSpeakPotDutch Author:Eddie Vedder
“There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.” KnowsHandsThreeFoundStrongPaperComputerToolsTablesGuitarFilesParagraphTypewritersGuitar PlayingFolders Author:Eddie Vedder
“When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.” KnowsShouldYearsReasonParentDecisionNormalAngryVersionsFranceFarmers Author:Eddie Vedder
“I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLittlesPersonsRealizingI RealizedAssumptionEditsOpaque Author:Eddie Vedder
“You know, punk bands now sell with one record - their first or second record - sell 10 times the amount of records than the Ramones did throughout their career with 20-something records. That's why I go over to Johnny Ramone's house and do yard work three times a week, just to absolve some of the guilt.” KnowsFirstsThreeHouseCareersRecordsWeekAmountBandSellsGuiltPunkYardsThree TimesRamonesYard Work 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
“You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.” KnowsWorldHardUsedStarsAcceptingRocksHard TimesBizarreRock StarTangibleDiscussingQuarterbackStardom Author:Eddie Vedder
“i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?” KnowsLoveBeautifulSunSkyMinesSomedayBeautiful LifePearl Jam Author:Eddie Vedder
“Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed” KnowsWayForeverKnow MeSatellites Author:Eddie Vedder
“On bended knee is no way to be free lifting up an empty cup I ask silently that all my destinations will accept the one that's me so I can breath Circles they grow and they swallow people whole half their lives they say goodnight to wive's they'll never know got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul so it goes.” PeopleKnowsWayMindI CanSoulWholeAsksGrowsHalfAcceptingTeacherEmptyBreathsCirclesMy SoulCupsKneesDestinationLiftingLifting UpEmpty CupSaying Goodnight Author:Eddie Vedder
“I know I was born and I know that I'll die... The in between is mine. I Am Mine” KnowsLifeDiesBornMines Author:Eddie Vedder
“It just seemed like I would. I mean, I didn't know him on a daily basis -- far from it. But, in a way, I don't even feel right being here without him. It's so difficult to really believe he's gone. I still talk about him like he's still here, you know. I can't figure it out. It doesn't make any sense.” KnowsWayFeelsBelieveMeanStillsI CanDifficultGoneFiguresBasesFeels Right Author:Eddie Vedder
“I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWorldWayDoeGuyLeaderReadyIf I CouldThat GuyNot ReadyWorld Leader Author:Eddie Vedder
“The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.” KnowsFeelsYearsThreeAudienceKnow HowOne ThingStageThree Years Author:Eddie Vedder
