Jeff Ament

I feel like in a lot of ways I can relate to the fans, just being a fan of music myself.

— Jeff Ament

I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang.

— Jeff Ament

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I…

— Jeff Ament

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look…

— Jeff Ament

You go to a show and you know the crowd is there because they like the music, not because everybody else was…

— Jeff Ament

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics.…

— Jeff Ament

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

— Jeff Ament

I'm a big fan of power trios where there's only three instruments.

— Jeff Ament

With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, 'Can I…

— Jeff Ament

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

— Jeff Ament

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

— Jeff Ament

I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.

— Jeff Ament

I get lost in my right brain, especially in creative things.

— Jeff Ament

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show,…

— Jeff Ament

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I…

— Jeff Ament

I don't have a great voice or even a good voice.

— Jeff Ament

I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap…

— Jeff Ament

All you have to do is drive by the empty tennis courts and basketball courts and compare them to the skate parks...…

— Jeff Ament

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird…

— Jeff Ament

We went to Big Sur about three years ago and hung out at the Esalen Institute.

— Jeff Ament

I love sad. Sadness makes you feel more than anything.

— Jeff Ament

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

— Jeff Ament

I'm healthy enough to still skate, so I gotta go because growing up I didn't have - I mean, I grew up…

— Jeff Ament

Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.

— Jeff Ament

Punk rock and skateboarding took the 'school' out of living your life, and I related to learning as I went, doing a…

— Jeff Ament