99 Quotes by Jim Root

I want to see the guitar in a non-linear sense that encompasses tones, arrangements, songwriting, audio production, and everything else - you have to do it all.

I can never look at anything I do subjectively - whether it's a Stone Sour record or a Slipknot record, I can never really have my own opinion of it, 'cos in my opinion it's all crap.

Sometimes I can be a little bit I don't know, stubborn or something. Maybe to a fault.

A&E eggnog, there's nothing like it anywhere on Earth. It's the best liquid ever made.

I'll never be able to listen to anything we've done like someone who's just picked it up for the first time.

There's a lot for us to achieve and a lot more music to explore. I'm not saying we want to start doing experimental prog or something, where it turns into elevator music after a few records, but I don't think we've even scratched the surface.

Dave Fortman really helped me appreciate Rick Rubin as a producer.

Rick Rubin was able to do things that Dave Fortman could never do. I'm not trying to take anything away from Dave Fortman as a producer. He's extremely talented. He wasn't able to get nine people together on the same page and, to me, that's the most important thing in making a Slipknot record.

We do things the way we do them and we do them unashamedly. It's our art. If you don't like it, that's fine. You don't have to.