Jim Root Quotes

Part of my therapy is to write.

For me, writing is a kind of coping mechanism.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.

There have been periods in my life where I have experienced depression. It has been through some of my darkest moments that I have written some of my best songs. For me, singing and writing is very therapeutic. It's much more effective than taking Prozac!

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

Being able to tour and experience all of the stuff that comes from touring, and then being able to come back to Nashville, it's almost like therapy to be able to get into a session and talk about all of the things that I'm going through. It's so much more real to me.

I make music because it helps me. I feel better after I've written a song. I listen to my own songs, and they make me feel and think about stuff I'd done or someone said to me, and I feel a bit better.

Writing is very cathartic for me.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

I need to write to be happy.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

If ever I was feeling down I would go and write something. It's a form of escape.

I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.

I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

I have to have some kind of creative outlet; otherwise, I'm hell to be around.