Mike McCready

I don't know if you could call me a natural-born runner.

There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward.

Duff McKagen's been a dear friend of mind for a long time, and he's a Seattlelite.

Recording 'Ten,' we probably did 'Even Flow' 30 times.

There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down at the same time.

Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.

A lot of times, bands will go on tour, and people only wanna hear the hits. Luckily, our fans are receptive to our new stuff.

I don't ever want to play a festival again, period.

There's times when I go, 'We should have done a bunch of videos.'...Regardless of mistakes we've made, we made 'em, and we own 'em.

I was reading an article with Stevie Ray Vaughan a long time ago, and the number '1959' stuck out to me for some reason. So I started searching those out as the band got more popular and I could actually afford one. And I found this one in Los Angeles. That's what introduced me to the whole world of 1959s.

At this point, because we have stayed the same course for so many years, I feel like we are freer to make choices that are motivated by what feels right creatively at a given point in time.

There was no support system in Seattle for musicians.