Jeff Ament Quotes

Sure, I've done enough partying for 10 guys.

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

I used to be jack the lad, I was out a lot, I was mainly waking up with hangovers at tournaments rather than preparing.

I have done some pretty dumb things. I am not going to lie. I see the things I have done. And I have done some dumb things.

We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

We played hard and we partied hard. I'm not ashamed of that. I was no angel - I did some things I shouldn't have done, lived a lifestyle I shouldn't have lived. I had a blast at times; other times, I probably compromised my job, my duty to do my job, to be ready as a professional.

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of themselves... well.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

I haven't always made the right decisions.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.

I drank too much, only champagne.

I never envy the guys who get attention for partying too much or behaving badly.

I got ideas above my station, and I made mistakes.

I don't make the right choices. I simply don't.

I have to accept the trouble I've got into, a lot of it has been either decisions I've made or probably not thought long and hard enough about.

I wasn't present for my own life for a long time. I wasn't there; I wasn't in my relationships; I wasn't in my band; I wasn't in my soul - I was disconnected from all of it. I would let myself live in a miserable situation forever, mostly of my own making. I made my own misery and made the people around me miserable.

I made bad decisions. I'm not denying that I made bad decisions.

When telling a story about how wasted you were last night, stop.

I ate too many Frosted Flakes. I don't remember what I said last night.

Last night I let the party get the best of me.