Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder is the lead singer for the band Pearl Jam.
Caffeine. The gateway drug.
"Come into Madison Square Garden and fuck up a song big time - I think John Lennon would've been proud!"
How many records you sell doesn't change how you look at the music. Getting a gold record was cool for about two and a half minutes.
Advice to the kids... Don't drink when you're sick... More advice: don't get sick when you drink.
Bruce asked me to sing this song, and since he's the boss, and I'm the employee here it is.
It doesn't feel like the United States of America these days... it just doesn't.
Our band is like an old car, and this record [Pearl Jam] is our new engine.
"This next song is called I Got Shit. But I guess most of you are saying, 'I got shit tickets.'" - During their May 13, 2006 visit to Hartford, CT in the cold rain
There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, [...] And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.
Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.
"Me and the band... we'd like to say something we've never had the chance to do before... Live From St.John's, Its Saturday Night, Lets Rock This Fucking Place!" - St. John's September 24th
This was at the MTV Awards. 'Tears in Heaven' was playing in the background, we were slow dancing. I remember going out surfing the next morning and remembering how good that moment felt and thinking, 'Fuck, man, if only we hadn't been so afraid of each other...' Because we were going through so much of the same shit. If only we'd talked, maybe we could have helped each other.
"So how many of you guys came out in limos? It's really great when you're in a limo and you can put your head to the window and look out at all the homeless people... Next time you're in your limo just look out at all the people sleeping in the alleys, I just dare ya to take a drink of that free alcohol [pause] This song is called Evenflow..."
"Japan is awesome... The fans there knew all the words to all the songs... At least phonetically."
The only fuckin' reason you guys chant my name is 'cause I'm the only guy in the band whose name has two syllables. We call Stone 'Stoney.' You could chant that... 'Stoney, Stoney!'
In America we like to have fun. Because we are an advanced culture... we live in a very advanced society and have a futuristic way of taking care of our population problem... we give each other guns and kill each other.
We are on the brink of forever.
We'd like to thank [pause] uh [pause] We don't- [pause] uh [pause] We don't have to thank any sponsors [pause] There were no fuckin' sponsors...
These are the rich people, right?! They have all the luxuries, right?! Looks to me, they are the farthest from the stage, and they're behind a fuckin' window!
Over the years, we've always been impressed by the Brazilian flags at our shows... it's fantastic to finally play for all Brazilians.