Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

There’s really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

If it’s a long bus drive after the gig, we’ll listen to music all the time, like the Stones, Neil Young, Elton John. Just mellow stuff.

All the drawings are mine. Originally, the idea I sold to Random House was an illustrated recipe book on how to defend yourself against monsters.

So it doesn’t have to be happy music to be inspiring.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would’ve worked their way up to this position and would’ve gotten a thick skin over...

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up… and we’re still fighting it.

The first time, I don’t think I could have possibly been any less prepared for everything accompanying the release of the album.

But I’ve played with so many varied bands with varied musical tastes, that I feel qualified to have my own musical tastes at this point in my life.

I want you to see that I’m looking. Look at me look at you. I’m cool with that.

And when I finally got dumped from Elektra, which was pretty good, though at the time it was kinda painful, I just turned things around.

I started mainly learning piano, but not as an accomplished pianist. I learned by just using it as a basis for harmonic structures.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

It doesn’t have anything to do with yesterday or tomorrow, it’s all right now.

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in reading what the critics were saying about whether the play was...

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You’re writing for the public.

It’s hot as hell as can be.

I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn’t.

My major in college was speech therapy, but to do what I wanted I would have to go on and get my Master’s Degree. I figured I needed a change of pace.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.

I had a picture of myself when I was a kid, how I’d look when I got old. I look in the mirror and think, This is pretty much it.

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we’re going to after that.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it’s over. It’s over.

In Tim’s films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don’t get the film.

It’s probably getting our old drummer back and actually playing as a band. And, I don’t know, it sounds like what we do best right now.

But by the time you get there and you get home, it winds up being a lot of time out. So I’m getting the itch to build, I know that. I keep looking at my...

I wasn’t for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Most people are really cool and I really don’t mind talking to them and answering their questions.

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I’m certainly not in this for the...

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn’t do it without stuttering.

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable,...

I would love to be like a Brian McKnight. Shoot, I’d love to be Brian McKnight.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I’m very thankful to be doing what I’m doing. I feel very blessed.

The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.

I’m more prone to his ’70s material, which is what I was around for and watched a lot. I listen to a lot of that stuff. It probably influenced me quite a bit. I’m more...

My father and brothers were coal miners.

All of these reissues were not authorized by me, I do not endorse them, the live album was put out without my permission, and I’ve not seen a dime at this point, either.

What I’m getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in...

I’d like to build what I call an oasis.

I’m sad about this, but we shouldn’t have been married in the first place.

The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it’s a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still...

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.