Mike McCready

“And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting into it, putting 120 percent into the show. We feel comfortable and excited.”

“I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.”

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

“We have a ridiculous amount of material.”

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

“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.”

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

“It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.”

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

“The older I get, the more I surf and do more stretches to get ready for the rock show.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“When they're singing the guitar lines of songs in South America? Never heard that before. And in Canada, when they're singing all of the lyrics to every song - that blows me away. I don't know all the lyrics to every song.”

“When you're really young, dating girls, and trying to explain Kiss, they just look at you like you're kind of crazy. I think they got so big in the Seventies and were such a phenomenon - they did the 'Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park' movie, the solo records - some people only know the merchandising stuff.”

“I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.”

“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.”