Eddie Vedder Quotes

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.

How can anybody say they know how I feel? The only one around here who is me, is ME.

I don't like to label myself. I know I'm very hard to pigeonhole.

When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.

You need to be your own individual.

I've always done everything at my disposal to avoid labeling what I do, or to avoid being labeled myself.

I just don't conform very well.

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.

I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

I am who I am.

We have to wake up. We have to refuse to be a clone.

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.

I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I am definitely an individual.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

I don't want to be normal. I want to be something else.

'Different' is such a good word. For me, ever since I was little, I always felt that something was off. And I just didn't have the resources to - I just didn't know what it was.