Mike McCready

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

— Mike McCready

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

— Mike McCready

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

— Mike McCready

But KISS inspired me personally to pick up a guitar and go for it.

— Mike McCready

It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.

— Mike McCready

To be able to make a living doing what I love is truly a gift, and I'm thankful for that every day.

— Mike McCready

I think our fans are bigger and better students of Pearl Jam than we are.

— Mike McCready

Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all…

— Mike McCready

I hope we've lightened up over the years. We're fairly comfortable where we are, living-wise, and we're excited, honestly, just to still…

— Mike McCready

I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten':…

— Mike McCready

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…

— Mike McCready

Tom Petty sent me this amazing 12-string Rickenbacker, and 'Not for You' was the first time I used it. It was like…

— Mike McCready

When you're in a band, you're just trying to do whatever you can to keep your band together. You're thinking very inwardly,…

— Mike McCready

To just meet people that have Crohn's or colitis and to hear their stories gives me a lot of hope and a…

— Mike McCready

You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic…

— Mike McCready

My life would have been different without Paul Stanley or Ace Frehley. They would have to be the greatest on my list…

— Mike McCready

Sometimes with Polaroids, the shot you want to get in your head doesn't happen. What it makes me do is be patient,…

— Mike McCready

Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started…

— Mike McCready

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

— Mike McCready

'Even Flow' is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on…

— Mike McCready

We can go to Australia and play to 30-to-40,000. We can do that in certain places in the States, but not everywhere.

— Mike McCready

In the early days of Pearl Jam, we were caught up in such a whirlwind that I was just trying to keep…

— Mike McCready

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

— Mike McCready

I think I bought into that whole rock n' roll lifestyle, and all that does in the end is kill ya. So…

— Mike McCready

Polaroids were the instant thing to get a photo back when I started it. You had to wait two days to get…

— Mike McCready

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played…

— Mike McCready

Every Crohn's and colitis patient is different, and they all respond to different things. That's the craziest thing about it.

— Mike McCready

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain…

— Mike McCready

We value doing things grassroots, even at this level. That means no real high ticket prices or meet-and-greets and all that kind…

— Mike McCready

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little…

— Mike McCready

There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up…

— Mike McCready

And watching Ed, he's really coming into his own doing some new things onstage I've never seen him do. He's really getting…

— Mike McCready

Honestly, I'd rather do regular interviews. It's more interesting to talk about whatever... anything other than guitars. I'm not into being a…

— Mike McCready

Crohn's patients differentiate their diet. You know, what I can handle and tolerate, another person couldn't, and what they can, I can't.

— Mike McCready

I've met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn's. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing:…

— Mike McCready

When we're not doing any Pearl Jam stuff, that's when I'll probably think of doing something else, whether that be scoring -…

— Mike McCready

I used to sit for hours and copy every lick on those early AC/DC and Kiss records. From there, I went on…

— Mike McCready

As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind…

— Mike McCready

That's a fantasy of mine. We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the…

— Mike McCready

We came out of a very provincial city that was not very supportive of music, and we had to do our own…

— Mike McCready