Quotes About Passion

I realized I didn't need to go to work every day. I could work for the pleasure and the challenge, not for the mortgage payment.

When you first start out in the music business and hope that you have a couple hits, the ultimate payoff is to be standing in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the way they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

Good work is such an incredible payoff. And I know that I'll be working until the end, because good work excites me.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

I have to pay the bills just like everybody else, but it also pays my soul to work.

Being a nerd really pays off sometimes.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

Of course, fighting's first. That's what I do; that's what pays my bills, you know.

When your hobby becomes a full-time job that pays you and the people around you, it's not fun anymore.

My sets are not peaceful. It's a beautiful catastrophe. I am running around like a headless chicken. I don't sleep because I am writing. It's manic.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

I never wanted football to be my highest peak.

Yeah, I feel as an artist, making a movie is the top of the food chain - that's the peak, the climax of everything.

Right now, I'm just focused on the 8,000-meter peaks. I don't know what's next. I don't think I will get tired of climbing.

Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

I had done plays, and Hindi theatre pays peanuts.

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

We want to have a life outside of Pearl Jam, too.

I loved the Black Eyed Peas. I was obsessed with them, and they were my favorite group ever, and Amy Winehouse, as well; I love her.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach.