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.

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

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.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

Every year is filled with good times and fights and struggles and misunderstandings. All of it adds up to being in a band over a long time.

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.