Musician Quotes

As the sun sets, we've all had those nights where you question your choices and where your life is going.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

I'm really quite happy to say that in my early 40s, I wake up feeling sexy, and I can't say I felt that way in my late 20s.

Being in your forties - any woman who isn't there yet, I just have to say to you: Euphoria is coming to you.

A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.

I'm a musician first, a food-lover second, a dirty mouth with feet, and a girl last time I checked.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

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

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.