"When Pearl Jam started talking about laying off on doing...

"When Pearl Jam started talking about laying off on doing interviews and stuff, I had a Modern Drummer cover already in place to be done. One of those nights on tour in Italy was when I was doin' the last interview with Modern Drummer. Kelly [Curtis, Pearl Jam's manager] said something to the effect of, 'You might just wanna lay off of that.' And my response was that I'd already committed to it. And Kelly said, 'Hopefully you're prepared to deal with the consequences.' If I had to guess at...