Jim Root

“We're still evolving as a band. I think that's really important for a band to do, especially after being around for so many years.”

“There's always something to rage about, right?”

“We're just kind of dark as humans, generally.”

“I'm always living at least a year ahead of where I'm really at, and that can really lead you to some negative thoughts and some bad vibes.”

“Slipknot's the kind of band you need to step away from and kind of take a break from and let it heal, so to speak.”

“When you've got a mask on, you're kind of invincible. It's almost like nobody can see you, and you can do what you want to do without consequences.”

“I'll admit that I don't have a lot of discipline when it comes to practicing. I'm not the type of guy who sits at home with a metronome and runs through scales and stuff like that. But I do go through phases when I'll be more diligent, and I notice that warming up and working on some patterns will make my playing cleaner.”

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

“Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.”

“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 feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I have trouble.' You know what I mean?”

“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.”

“All my racks are the same between Slipknot and Stone Sour. The only thing I'll do is switch out pedals in the GCX system. But it's the same heads, same wireless, same GCX.”

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

“You always have to be on top of your game, because you never know what is going to happen.”

“Some of the guys in Stone Sour, I think they just want to be a radio band and write strictly for radio and try to be more of a poppy rock band. And that's not really what I'm into.”

“For one reason or another, a lot of guys wind up with a guitar that isn't really right for them.”

“The culture of buying an album on CD or vinyl has gone out of the window. A lot of kids don't really understand that, they just hop onto Limewire, or find a BitTorrent, or even just go onto iTunes if they're going to pay for something. It's just right there, there's no searching about.”

“I think that the only goals that we try to set for ourselves is to evolve musically.”

“I think rock 'n' roll, in a way, has been dead for a long time.”