Famous quotes by Jeff Ament:

"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."

"We saw something starting to happen with the industry and we called them out on it,"

"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."

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

"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."

"With Pearl Jam, everybody is so good at what they do, it's hard to get up the courage to say, Can I sing this part, or, I want to play guitar. I feel like I have more courage to do that."

"Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be."

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

"It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places."

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

"I have to go someplace where I can soak myself in a creative atmosphere."

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

"I played djembe, percussion, keyboards and I sang."

"I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula."

"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."

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

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

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

"It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out."

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