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Call It Holistic Or Holographic Thinking, It's Been Quite Effective Imagining The World's Problems Are All Right In Front Of You On A Smaller Scale With Your Band. You Deal With Those Relationships, And That's Where Real Major Change Begins.

We May Take Breaks And Do Other Things, But We Feel We'll Ultimately Have Pearl Jam As A Family.

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.

As A Songwriter It's Kind Of Hard To Listen To Your Own Stuff With Clarity.

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.