Ein ziemlich langes Zitat, aber schön:
"If you trust me at all, if you want to listen to me at all...but you certainly don`t have to...speaking from experience, I can tell you that things change. You can believe me, you don`t have to. They probably won`t change unless you make them. The best way to change something that`s around you, something you don`t like, is to change yourself. And I don`t think you want other people changing you, I think the only person that can change you is yourself. So if you ain`t happy, if you`re reading magazines about generation x-ers and thinking `yeah, I`m one of them`, well fuck that. Don`t let anyone tell you who you are. No, no. No one can tell me who I am. I can tell you who I am, but that would be a long story. I could tell you who I am and it wouldn`t fit in a Rolling Stone. It wouldn`t fit in a video...it`s my life, it`s your life. You`re the only one who knows who you are. I hope you know who you are. If you don`t know who you are, figure it out. Cause you are somebody. And I`m probably stating the obvious, but I just thought I`d do it anyway. So if you feel like you`ve got a piece of duct tape on your mouth, if you feel like you can`t speak, take it off, speak up, speak your mind, shout it out, let em hear, shout it out...."
Eddie Vedder [live during Porch] - Randall`s Island, NY - 9/29/96)