58 Quotes by Jeff Ament

People from Farm Aid have approached us about shows. We'd never done it. So part of my pitch to the band is that this IS farm aid.

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

It's in the middle of the whole tour, so we'll get to go out and change it up a little bit. We love Tom and his band. It will be a cool, special show for people.

It's hard for us not to be involved with things. When you have so much information and you see so much need, there's too much going on for us not to get involved.

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

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

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 Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

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

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