Stone Gossard

“I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.”

“I picked up a guitar, and I knew what I wanted to do.”

“It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.”

“I like to play music. I like projects. I like excuses to hang out with my friends and play music.”

“I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.”

“My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.”

“I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.”

“I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.”

“A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.”

“I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.”

“You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it.”

“Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.”

“We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.”

“I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.”

“I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.”

“But Eddie does not make all the decisions. Eddie can listen to reason; Eddie can be swayed or talked in or out of certain things. Eddie allows other people to lead in this band and to have certain roles that are very fundamental to the decision-making process.”

“I just know that I love to write songs, and I have for a long time.”

“When you're moved by music, that's always good.”

“You can't help but have your children and your family be part of what you dream about when you dream up a song.”

“I've always related music to those moments when someone turns you loose on something and they haven't told you how to do it.”