99 Quotes by 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.

I'm just a dumb guitar player, man.

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.

I love Stone Sour. I love the music that we created. and it was a fun ride. But if I'm going to sacrifice all of my free time and my life for something, it has to be something that I a thousand-percent believe in, and something where I have a thousand-percent communication with everyone involved. And that something is Slipknot.

There's always something to rage about, right?

It's hard to chase a vibe and catch a vibe.

You know, unfortunately I'm only one person. I can't really be in two places at one time and the amount of focus that I need to put into Slipknot makes it really difficult for me to be on tour with Stone Sour.

When we recorded 'Iowa,' we jammed, we went through the songs, we played as a band and we recorded as a band.

That's why I don't necessarily enjoy it when bands cover other songs. You'll never recreate what has been done, especially if it's something that's legendary and classic.