Saving a piece of my heart...

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Cameron Crowe believes Vedder will learn from the suicide of Cobain.

"I don't think it is going to send him off the deep end," Crowe
said. "I know he had a lot of those feelings, those impulses himself,
and I'm just thinking he was able to almost see what would have happened
had he taken that jump... and it's not pretty. I think it is going to
help strengthen him. I think he'll deal with it properly."

Vedder began dealing publicly with Cobain's death on "Saturday Night Live." Asked why he omitted the "burn out" line, he said, "I guess I
could have turned it around and asked, 'Is it better to burn out?' but it
wasn't something I had planned out. I was just following my emotions at
the time. The other lines just meant more to me."

Vedder expects to spend much of his time in coming weeks in his
Seattle basement, making music. That's the way he has always been best
able to deal with his problems.

"I think that process has already begun," he says finally, a note
of resolve in his voice. "Seeing what can happen [to Cobain] makes me
realize I've got to work on it... to avoid getting swallowed up too."