A biography for Jim Roothasn’t been written yet.
“You can't evaluate your situation when you're in a band, not really.”
“You spend 20 years doing something and when you're not doing it, it's hard to figure out what it is you're made of. Am I the guitarist in Slipknot and that is it, or do I have more dimensions than that?”
“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.”
“It's hard to chase a vibe and catch a vibe.”
“I'll never be able to listen to anything we've done like someone who's just picked it up for the first time.”
“As you're touring there are so many layers to a live show, it has always been important for me to have a guitar that I can use live and in the studio.”
“In a nine-piece-band is one guy gonna call up eight guys and have a 45-minute discussion about every decision? No. So things are a lot more democratic in Stone Sour. Plus, we're closer and it's a lot easier to communicate. In Slipknot that's the big problem - communication.”
“I'm my own worst critic.”
“No, I would never in a million years compare anything we've done to anything we've previously done. I don't believe in it - I think it's bad.”
“I don't like to really dive too deep into politics.”
“Every experience you have in life can be applied to different things.”
“I'm definitely a lot more reserved without the mask on. And with the mask on, all those inhibitions kinda go out the window. I can act like Keith Richards, I guess!”
“The masks, for us, are more of a way to present ourselves live, you know?”
“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.”
“You don't even know are we going to have a career? Are we going to be able to sell records? Are we going to have a label?”
“It's important to evolve without ever straying too far from your roots and what established you.”
“There's such an energy and emotion to rock music, which is a lot of the reason I go back to '60s and '70s bands and look at some of the fire they had.”
“It's easy to get a good amp that might not be the right amp for you. When you go to a music store, really turn the amps on and turn 'em up - hopefully they'll let you - and work through the sounds. This is an important decision, so take your time and be methodical.”
“Don't get me wrong - I'm still way into the metal, but I've been listening to different things like Radiohead, Portishead, Bjork, and Queens of the Stone Age.”
“We considered all sorts of names - everything from Tarantula Bomb to Superego to Section 8. Some of them were already taken, and some of them were kind of campy sounding. So we just decided to stick with Stone Sour. After all, what's in a name?”