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.

I’m asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I’ve learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

Let’s have the music that will open the door to millions of people… the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer… not music that...

We’ve done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that’s why we’re still together. That freedom doesn’t keep us too restricted.

I don’t take part in it the way I used to-the bimbos, the free beers, free drugs, all that. That’s still there if you want it, but I don’t really seek that out any more.

We basically believe in nature more than anything else; that’s why the new album, October Rust, has a strong pagan element to it.

I don’t think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

Back then it was nothing like today. So you’d go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot...

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.

I love decorating my home. I’m a gardener too, so that’s usually something I have to play catch up with.

By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than...

I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.

I like to make great albums.

The final story, the final chapter of western man, I believe, lies in Los Angeles.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That’s the key.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.