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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."
Road
"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."
Power
"I began hearing rumors of apossible recording session with Neil Young. I was a huge fan of Neil's."
Hearing
"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."
Cities
"I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions."
Rest
"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."
Family
""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."
Decision
"We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to."
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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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"Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer."
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"Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?"
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"Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups."
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