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"I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have."
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"I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses."
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"I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons."
Age
"We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time."
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"I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have."
Music
"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."
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"It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band."
Time
"I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times."
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"I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions."
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"In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians."
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""Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."
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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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