Quotes By Eddie Vedder

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

I think celebrities suck.

It's not a bad time to be me.

When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't.

At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

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 to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

Caffeine. The gateway drug.

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.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

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

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

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

The love received is the love that is saved.

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.