The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never play as well without these guys; the best I have ever been creatively has been with Pearl Jam. — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Whether it's Neil Young or Johnny Rotten, a band has to have someone like that: someone who you listen to and know… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy,… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I've been denied coverage two times in my life - and it's after I've been in a big successful rock band. And… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I was reading an article with Stevie Ray Vaughan a long time ago, and the number '1959' stuck out to me for… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
In the early days of Pearl Jam, we were caught up in such a whirlwind that I was just trying to keep… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1.… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Duff McKagen's been a dear friend of mind for a long time, and he's a Seattlelite. — Mike McCready Copy Share
Playing onstage, I'm always aware of where the bathrooms are. When Crohn's hits, I have to run, or it won't be pretty. — Mike McCready Copy Share
As a band, we just don't tolerate any kind of abuse or intolerance of any kind of LGBT people by any kind of government. — Mike McCready Copy Share
My mind has always kind of operated with this band like it's gonna be over tomorrow. — Mike McCready Copy Share
It was by design that we mostly used pictures that you could not necessarily see what was going on, and that didn't really focus… — Mike McCready Copy Share
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 Copy Share
There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down… — Mike McCready Copy Share
When our band took off, we were all in this microcosm of a hurricane or whatever it was. It was a crazy, crazy dream… — Mike McCready Copy Share
