Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder is the lead singer for the band Pearl Jam.
“Your singing is very good. Much better than my language”; (Pearl Jam in Zagreb, Croatia – 26.09.2006.)
I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song, [...] It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. Take 'Rearviewmirror', we start off with the music and it kinds of propels the lyrics. It made me feel like I was in a car, leaving something, a bad situation. There's an emotion there. I remembered all the times I wanted to leave...
"I am a rhinoceros and my skin is two feet thick"... Said on "Ramblings" from the 1991?s first Ten Club holiday single "Let Me Sleep, It’s Christmas Time"
"If he was trying to wind me up, it didn't work, maybe he was just a big Gavin Rossdale fan?" - After someone screamed "Bush 2008! Bush 2008! Bush 2008! Jeb's running!"
My mind is in these songs, but the fact that so many people relate to these songs is kind of depressing. Actually, now I understand those religious channels more. Everybody needs something.
"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." Just before the band played The Clash's Know Your Rights.
It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.
If people don't like what I'm doing I really don't have time to hear it. I'm doing something good with my life and I challenge them to do the same.
So, Mookie thinks there are a bunch of crazed white rock musicians following him around, making t-shirts and singing his praises (Stone)... He's frightened of us...he sits at home telling his wife 'why is this happening to me? What did I do?
Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality.
I think celebrities suck.
I'd like to thank God, but I don't believe in it, for all this love and support." -- June 24, 2008, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY
You don't love me. You don't know me. You love who you think I am. If you knew me, you wouldn't love me. And don't try to pretend you know me, because I don't even know myself.
How is life treating you? Better yet, how are you treating life?
It's so important - Every day we wake up, we're creating our memory. We have to create the best ones we can, even if for one day. Find your goals and take them one step at time. Your happiness and control form responsibility. It takes work and you MUST do things yourself. Don't expect anyone else to do it for you. Don't feel sorry for yourself. I've learned that about myself. I once thought I was under the lion's paw but when I decided to take on responsibility, I became much more free.
people like the deep roughness and shouting that me and other grunge singers use.