Fatherhood was supposed to make Eddie Vedder look at the world as a wonderful place, but he admits that it hasnt happened.
Washington, September 21 : Fatherhood was supposed to make Eddie Vedder look at the world as a wonderful place, but he admits that it hasn't happened.
The 'Pearl Jam' frontman says that his anger was fuelled when his daughter Olivia was born to girlfriend Jill McCormick in 2004, for he saw how messed up the world was, and realised that things are not going to get better as his beloved daughter grows up.
"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. I kept waiting for that to happen, and thought there was a real problem with me that it wasn't," People magazine quoted Vedder as telling reporters at Tuesday's 'Into the Wild' press conference in West Hollywood.
"It was a different reaction. It wasn't the glowy lovey-dovey. It fuelled my anger.
"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."
The singer admitted that fatherhood had forced him to question his own attitude about life.
"I don't know what I'm going to say when she sees pictures of me hanging 30 feet off a rafter, over a crowd. At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless," Vedder said.
Vedder said that he would bring up his daughter very nicely, and fulfil all the necessities for her development.
"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," he said.
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