Eddie Vedder: It's easily the best stuff we've done but also some of the hardest stuff. It's very aggressive, because again, it's kind of a product of what it's like to be an American these days. It's pretty aggressive, especially when you turn it loud.
Stone Gossard: We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.
Mike McCready: When we look out in the crowd we see younger people, 15 years old and up to 50 and 60. It seems to run the whole gamut.
Eddie Vedder: Every time I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.
Pearl Jam are the last of the "Big Four" Seattle grunge bands to still record together.
The lyrics to the song "Army Reserve" from their eponymous album were co-written by infamous criminal Damien Echols.
Pearl Jam are one of the "big four" bands of Seattle Grunge music along with Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains.
Guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament were members of seminal Grunge group, Green River, with future members of the band Mudhoney, Mark Arm and Steve Turner.
As of at least 2007, Pearl Jam hold the record for the most albums on the Billboard 200 album chart simultaneously.
Vocalist Eddie Vedder uses the pseudonym "Jerome Turner" for his non-musical contributions to albums (artwork etc.).
In a 2005 USA Today readers poll, Pearl Jam was voted the greatest American rock band of all time.
Guitarist Mike McCready suffers from Crohn's Disease.
Their current drummer, Matt Cameron, has been with the group for more albums (three) than any other drummer.
Pearl Jam has gone through 4 drummers: Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese, and Jack Irons. Matt Cameron is the band's current drummer.
Pearl Jam was originally named Mookie Blaylock, after the bastketball player. Due to trademark concerns a new name was necessitated after signing on with Epic Records. They settled on the name Pearl Jam.
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