I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to say things. I'm a little exhausted by the process.
Eddie VedderI get really worried, like if they say, 'Take vocal lessons,' or something because it's kind of like I used to really love to draw when I was a kid and then I took like an art class - because everyone said, 'Oh, you're so good, you should take a class and maybe you can be really good,' and then I went to the class and then they showed me how to use a ruler and perspective and all this stuff and it totally made me not want to do it at all.
Eddie VedderI'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.
Eddie VedderYou can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
Eddie VedderItโs a song about first relationships and letting go. Itโs very rare for a relationship to withstand the Earthโs gravitational pull and where itโs going to take people and how theyโre going to grow. Iโve heard it said that you canโt really have a true love unless it was a love unrequited. Itโs a harsh one, because then your truest one is the one you canโt have forever.
Eddie Vedder