When we're not doing any Pearl Jam stuff, that's when I'll probably think of doing something else, whether that be scoring - hopefully more opportunities will come - or doing a solo thing.

Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and 'Not for You' was the first time I used it. It was like a Christmas present. One day, it just showed up at my door. I called him up and thanked him.

Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient, I guess, or let go of that presumption of what the shot's going to be.

Crohn's patients differentiate their diet. You know, what I can handle and tolerate, another person couldn't, and what they can, I can't.

We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own thing and flyer everywhere.

There was no support system in Seattle for musicians.

Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.

Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list as an influence to my life at 11 years old.

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So I don't recommend it to anyone.

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

I have lived most my life with chronic inflammation and constant pain with immediate diarrhea.

That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent.

Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.

I hold Mad Season very fondly to my heart, and there's a lot of sadness in that, too.

Chris Cornell painted in song the darkness and beauty of life in Seattle.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward.

We're banned from a whole lot of hotels, and we're running out of hotels we can stay in.

What a lot of the world missed was just how caring New York became post-9/11.

It's never been our intention to sell millions of albums, but if our message touches that many people, then so be it.

I guess when time came to make 'To The 5 Boroughs,' we had something important to say.

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.