By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.
In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can't control his mind, he can't control his body.
Yes I pay taxes. . . There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.
Shoes are real. Money is an end result.