286 Quotes by Eddie Vedder

Competition is healthy, if you can turn it off and on. When someone gets too cocky in victory, that can ruin the positive aspect.

The word religion has such bad connotations for me, that it's been responsible for wars, and it shouldn't be that way at all, it's just the way the meaning of the word has evolved to me. I have to wonder what we did on this planet before religion.

I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

There are times where I would keep three typewriters on a table, and I'd have three complete thoughts going. With computers, you make folders, files - I don't know about those things. I have sheaves of paper polluted with words and paragraphs. I found it a good tool for me. And it keeps your hands strong for guitar playing.

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow's denied.

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

Wait a minute, yes, those are human heads.