Eddie Vedder Quotes

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

My life choices are not supposed to be the gateway to somebody else's. That's my journey.

You don't have to live anybody else's story.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

I can't always live my life for everybody else.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

As long as I live I will have control over my being.

It's my life and my death.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

Don't let others define you. You define yourself.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

This has always been my life and no one else's, and that's how it's always been since the day I came in it.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

I never was a person who let people who have their ideas and their expectations of me dictate who I became.

It's my life, it's up to me what I want to do with it. And I'm realizing that.

I don't play no one else's game and I don't run no one else's race because if I did that, I wouldn't be who I am.

I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.

At the end of the day, I'm my own person.

I am who I am. I do what I do.

I fight for the right to be an individual. I have to be meself.

I don't want anybody else's life.

Either I choose to behave or live a life of someone else, or I choose to be myself and live the life the way I want.