58 Quotes by Jeff Ament

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

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

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

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

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

I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could pick up your acoustic instruments or you could go out and rock or you could play a country song. I love all those bands we got mentioned with, but it never felt like we fit into that group very well. So the fact that they're still saying, 'The band that survived grunge' is kind of funny.

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love talked trash about the fact that I hooped. I once stopped to say 'Hi' before a show, and as I walked away, Courtney yelled, 'Go play basketball with Dave Grohl!'

Our first record didn't come out on vinyl, so I think that might have had something to do with actually being in a position to make sure that it came out in vinyl this time. It sounds way better.

I think I've become numb to that over the last 15 years,