Jim Root Quotes

Jim Root

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 2, 1971

If you have a sickness, you gotta fix that sickness, but you can't keep putting somebody into treatment over and over and over again.

Jim Root

I love 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior,' in particular - those movies are very close to my soul, you know what I mean?!

Jim Root

You know, 'Mad Max' and 'The Road Warrior' was part of my childhood, and that's why I'm so close to it. I remember seeing those movies at a drive-in theater with my parents when I was very young.

Jim Root

My first real real guitar I had was a Charvel, model 1 and that was when I was 15, I think, I got that.

Jim Root

People need to go back and figure out why it is that Slipknot plays the way it is. That way, maybe, you know, maybe every band doesn't start sounding the same anymore.

Jim Root

I'm extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing right now and I work very hard at maintaining this career and living this dream that I'm living, but there's also a price to pay. I mean, we give a lot of ourselves and every day.

Jim Root

I plan for the best and expect the worst.

Jim Root

We're closer friends in Stone Sour than I am with the guys in Slipknot and that makes life a lot easier. I'm not trying to take anything away from Slipknot.

Jim Root

It's always been about the live show for us. We're having Halloween onstage every night.

Jim Root

It's probably a lot cooler than wearing jeans and a T-shirt. Once I put on the mask, I don't even realize that it's there. They're molded off of our faces, so they fit really well.

Jim Root

Yes, it is extremely lucky to be doing what I'm doing, and I wouldn't change any of it for the world.

Jim Root

I was awkward in school. I didn't really fit in with any kind of crowd in school. I didn't have a lot of friends. But the friends I had were very close friends.

Jim Root

As a person, I think you're always kind of searching for something or going through a hardship, whether it's your parents splitting up or anything like that. I mean, my parents stuck together, for whatever reason, until I was about 23, and then they decided to call it quits.

Jim Root

For Slipknot, I'd say drumming is only 50 or 60 percent of the job. The rest of it is who you are and what your personality is.

Jim Root

I don't consciously think of any certain direction when I'm writing. I only try not to be repetitive or redundant.

Jim Root

It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.

Jim Root

I'm constantly writing, maybe a little more than other guys in the band. I find it a very therapeutic thing to do on the road, where you're estranged from your hobbies.

Jim Root

We're a unique band, so why have a generic producer lumping you in a box with other bands that sound the same?

Jim Root

I don't like to try to put, like, 'Let's do this type of record,' 'cause it never turns out that way anyways.

Jim Root

There's always something to rage about, right?

Jim Root