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Music saved me I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.
Eddie Vedder
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Eddie Vedder
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: December 23
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Eddie Jerome Vedder
Edward Louis Severson III
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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I would thank God, but I don't believe in it.
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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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