“"Later he tried to keep a straight face as he mockingly confessed: 'While we were away, I found God.' He rambled on about the Bible before concluding, 'We found God. He was right in our stomachs…'"
(The rambling had to do with finding a Bible in every hotel room, "Every hotel has Holy Bibles.")”

— Eddie Vedder

July 23, 1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, page C3.

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