Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder may have been at the forefront of the '90s Seattle musical sound, but he says that he may have put adolescent angst behind him and moved onto to adult anger.
"When I had a child, everyone was telling me that I was going to see the world through her eyes, and everything was going to get this nice gloss to it," Vedder told reporters at a press conference for the film
Into the Wild. "I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't."
Vedder says, "It was a different reaction. It wasn't the glowy lovey-dovey. It fueled my anger."
Vedder has a 3-year-old daughter, Olivia, with girlfriend Jill McCormick.
He says that the current political and environmental condiation of the world fueled his emotions.
"I realized that I was getting more angry – the exact opposite – and maybe it was because of the times, three years ago and what's still happening. ... All of a sudden, I saw the world as her world that they were [messing] with. That really pissed me off."
One thing he doesn't want to pass down to his daughter are some of the lessons of his own childhood.
"I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived," he says. "I know that she's going to go through a time where she has to assert her independence. I'm going to have to just encourage that."
Vedder boasts, "I think she's going to have a great upbringing. ... Already, she's [been] provided a life of travel. I didn't get to New York until 25 or Europe until I was 26. She's been to all these places six or seven times. She's beyond me in terms of her comfortability around other people, to this day."
Source: People
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