If You Have A Lot Of Nature

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.

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.

I've Always Related Music To Those Moments When Someone Turns You Loose On Something And They Haven't Told You How To Do It.

You Know, At 35 Or At 38 Or 40 You Really Start To See What Your Body Could Look Like If You Just Don't Do Anything All Winter Long. So That's Another Motivating Factor, Our Vanity.

A Significant Event For Me Was Learning Hank Williams, Reconnecting With His Music's Simplicity, Which Inspired Me To Inhabit The Same Territory. It's Different, Because I Grew Up On Led Zeppelin, The Stooges And Punk, So In That Sense I'm Mutating Country And Folk More Than A Few Degrees.