Eddie Vedder Quotes

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

I realized a long time ago that, even as a kid, it's all about the choices you make, the things you pursue. In the end, you're a sum of your choices.

I take risks, but I don't lose respect for my real self. Because what's going to happen afterwards? How are you going to get back? Is there going to be a train, or will it be after midnight and you can't go home again?

To all my young fans out there, I ask that you no longer consider me a role model. See me as an individual who had the opportunity to be a role model but blew it. Blew it with irresponsible, irrational, immature decisions.

Every man writes his manner. I just made poor decisions.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge yourself.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

What you risk reveals what you value.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it's less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

When I turned 30, I had this epiphany that my life is my own and my choices are my own.

Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

Life is about making choices, seeing those choices through, and living through consequences.

Be not ashamed to have had wild days, but not to have sown your wild oats.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

Nobody's perfect, but I hold myself accountable. I think about the choices I make because they not only affect me, they affect all of my fans and my family.