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This is embarrassing to admit, but I didn't really know anything about Pearl Jam. Of course, I knew who they were, but I had never really sampled them.

Pearl Jam doesn't just sing about issues they care about. These guys walk it like they talk it.

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

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

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

Any conversations we hear about 'So who are Pearl Jam marketing to?' are despicable.

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

When punk rock came along, the one thing you were not supposed to be was musical.