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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.

Eddie Vedder

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Eddie Vedder
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
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Edward Louis Severson III
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.
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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.
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The nice thing about money is that you can do good things with it. I still feel like if something needs to be done or we need to raise money for someone on death row, we can find ways to do it.
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I would do anything to be around music. You don't even have to pay me.
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If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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Singing someone else's songs is like keeping your clothes on.
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i know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?
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Music's at its best when it has a purpose.
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I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.
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Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.
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I had a $1.50 from playing the ukulele after owning it seven minutes. I thought, Hmmm, this has some possibilities.
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If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
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People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
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I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.
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I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.
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Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.
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I just finished touring, and I'm on a detox thing. It's a heavy detox, so nothing in my belly except water, salt, and cayenne pepper.
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You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.
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