I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

If you have a lot of nature in your city, it becomes a more enjoyable place. That's my own feeling about it.

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.

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

On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.

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