A biography for Mike McCreadyhasn’t been written yet.
“A song kind of comes out of anywhere. A song will come out of the sky, or an idea, or walking around, or playing with other guys.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“I'm surprised that we're around still. A lot of the bands that we came out with are not around.”
“When we did our first record, my mindset was this is all going to be over tomorrow.”
“I never play as well without these guys; the best I have ever been creatively has been with Pearl Jam.”
“Honestly, I'd rather do regular interviews. It's more interesting to talk about whatever... anything other than guitars. I'm not into being a tech-head.”
“Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know that he believes what he says.”
“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.”
“There's a Kiss through-line to a lot of the music that came out of Seattle, and it hasn't been talked about a lot.”
“I'm amazed that people are even still wanting to listen to us.”
“That's a fantasy of mine. We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the B-sides along with the album and get really creative with it.”
“I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.”
“I still believe guitars will be around as long as there's rock music.”
“Actors want to be musicians, and musicians want to be baseball players.”
“We try to keep everything as in-house and small and as punk rock and do-it-yourself as we can. That's part of our way of doing business.”
“We were accused of sounding like a couple of bands when we started out. Aerosmith was one.”
“Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.”
“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 think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.”