There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.

At some shows, the set list gets changed while we are on stage. I know Ed thinks about the set very hard throughout the day in order to make the best show possible for the fans and for us.

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon.

I have to eat in a way that's good for me.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them.

It's always push and pull with a record company.

It's extremely important to have a loyal fan base and be receptive to them.

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

Some people are still not into us. That makes sense. We haven't really done a lot of press. We haven't put ourselves out there in ways that a lot of people would know we are still around. Unless you tour or record, they don't know you are around.

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

Throughout my life of having Crohn's, I've been on and off prednisone when other stuff was not working.

When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream come true with nightmares floating around it, and all sorts of stuff was happening, and my Crohn's was happening.

I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.

Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty.

I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And I've a lot of met people who've been denied coverage who don't have the resources to fight the insurance companies. And they shouldn't have to do that.

I'll hear us on classic rock radio stations, and I'll go, 'Oh, my God, we're getting old!'

I'm amazed that people are even still wanting to listen to us.

Until Mad Season, I didn't have that confidence to write songs, and I really got it, playing with these guys. It meant the world to me.

I'm the kind of guy who wants to be involved in everything concerning our new baby. I don't want to miss a thing.

To be able to make a living doing what I love is truly a gift, and I'm thankful for that every day.

I would love for people to enjoy our music and have feelings from it. That's all I can hope for.

It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.

As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government.

I'd love to have Jack White up. I think he's just a phenomenal guitar player. I'd love to see him play up close because he's got a killer voice, and he's a great lead player, too. That would be exciting to me.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'

We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.

There's times when I go, 'We should have done a bunch of videos.'...Regardless of mistakes we've made, we made 'em, and we own 'em.

Reason why we've lasted so long is we write music; we get very intense. We go away from each other, do our own thing, and then we get back together.

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.

I'm sober now and very happy.

Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.

We have a ridiculous amount of material.

I think our fans are bigger and better students of Pearl Jam than we are.

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

We're always working on our communication, which is something that's important. Instead of going through managers to discuss things, we will sit down and have meetings about things. That's a process. And you have to be able to be honest with each other as much as you can.

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind of stuff.

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly, very myopic.

Playing albums in sequence can be awesome, or it can be very limiting.

'Black Diamond' blew my mind. Ace Frehley came onstage and did it with us at Madison Square Garden a few years ago, which was a total high watermark in my life. When I was 13, I never thought in a million years that I would even talk to him; I'd probably pass out. And here I am playing with him!