"I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons."

"'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988."

"I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions."

"After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that kindness can heal wounds that time cannot."

"I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there."

"I know of no way of judging the future but by the past."

"Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees."