I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. Theres an insanity that goes with writing – a mad scientist thing that you have to go through – and sacrificing a kids upbringing to do that is not an option. – Eddie Vedder
Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. – 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 arent cool, just to establish themselves. Thats what adolescence is about. Theyre gonna go through that no matter what. – Eddie Vedder
Im trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. – Eddie Vedder
I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third times a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a family full of love. – Rodney Atkins