If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.

Ladies and gentleman of Florida, this is the real Jeff Ament...take a very good look because there's an imposter running around...if someone comes up to you and says he's Jeff Ament and says he wants to take your pot or wants to take you to a strip club, it's probably not him.

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

I am a thief, I am a liar, I am George Bush and my son is an asshole.