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

I like myself. I think I'm cool. But I think when you're in a band you take on a role within the band, and I think people over the course of years can identify those roles as almost being bigger than just the individual. I don't know. It's kind of hard to talk about.

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

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

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.