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

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.

It's really comforting for me and Jeff, at least, that after 12 years we finally feel we've reached a place where we can be more honest, real and loving with each other. And we're finally in a band that we know is good, and deserves the credit it's getting.

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.

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.