3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder 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!
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder 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.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder Do you force your kids to pay attention to what’s going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren’t cool, just to establish themselves. That’s what adolescence is about. They’re gonna go through that no matter what.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There’s an insanity that goes with writing – a mad scientist thing that you have to go through – and sacrificing a kid’s upbringing to do that is not an option.
3 December 2020 Eddie Vedder I’d like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn’t being hijacked by computer technology. There’s no reason there can’t be a paper trail on those machines.
