Eddie Vedder Quotes

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.

Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Having a kid is getting a certain kind of freedom in a way because you can't be self-obsessed anymore.

Becoming a parent has just completely changed me, and made life so beautiful and given me such a center and a focus and such joy.

I am making an effort to truly live. I don't mean to imply by that that I haven't been alive before but, with my son being here and such a powerful force in my life, he's given me a freedom to be more. I think that sometimes we can get stuck, and just the fact that he's here says so much to me about my own existence. I didn't think I'd be able to have children, and this level of blessing is something I can't even put my finger on.

No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.

It is a revolutionary experience. That's the best way I can describe it. It transforms you completely, in a second. Nature is very wise and gives you nine months to prepare, but in that moment-when you see that face, you are transformed forever.

When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

It's one of those things where people tell you that when you have kids it will change your perspective on life, and you're like, 'Yea, yea,' but then you really understand it when it happens to you.

I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

My most amazing discovery was becoming a mother. It changed everything. I can't imagine my life without these little beings.

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

The world doesn't revolve around me anymore. Now it's all about this little baby. I come home after a rough day, I see her and she smiles and nothing but that matters. I know that sounds really cliche but it's the truth.

Having a baby is a life-changer. It gives you a whole other perspective on why you wake up every day.

I was asleep at the wheel before cancer shook me awake.

I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn't really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up.

I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.

My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.