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 know I was born and I know that I’ll die… The in between is mine.I Am Mine

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...

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don’t allow us our voice, that’s all I’m saying.

We want them to be heard for the first time when the record comes out.

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

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn’t play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There’s an insanity that goes with writing – a mad scientist thing that you have to go...

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?

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

If at noon you sit down and there’s just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn’t exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for...

Over the years, we’ve always been impressed by the Brazilian flags at our shows … it’s fantastic to finally play for all Brazilians.

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

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...

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women’s right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.

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...

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...

It’s understandable why someone would like their entertainment to provide an escape from modern day worries and the reality of war. We feel this record creates a healthy opportunity to process some of these emotions...

I don’t need drugs to make my life tragic.

I’ve never been a calm, midrange type person.

If he can’t sleep, how will he ever dream?

Any conversations we hear about ‘So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?’ are despicable.

There’s a lot of anger and frustration in the atmosphere these days. We didn’t want to add to the negative noise pollution, but we did want to do something. It’s just not the time to...

When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive music of the time. It wasn’t us or Nirvana, but Mudhoney. Nirvana delivered it to the...

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,...

It’s like we took our aggressions and shaped something positive from them in a very direct manner. Though we’d qualify most of the record as hard-driving, the two quiet ones (Parachutes and Come Back) could...

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 think celebrities suck.