Jim Root Quotes

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.

I had almost no money, but with the little bit I had, I got a ticket to see 'That Championship Season' at the Booth theater.

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

I went through a period in my life where I didn't have money to buy ramen noodles and peanut butter and jelly, but I also needed to go to the guitar store and buy strings and picks and polish and rags. I couldn't live with myself if I didn't play guitar.

If you've just been sacked from work, with no money coming in and a baby to feed, clothe and keep warm, it's unlikely you'll have a thousand pounds or so to spare.

My mom didn't have a lot of money.

It is weird because a lot of people don't realise, I would struggle for budget. There are moments with the people I work with sit there and think what have we got to do to make people realise that if Billy doesn't get sponsorship he won't be racing.

When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.

We don't make enough in our job to live the way that we would want to and to have the support that we would need. Most of our income doesn't even come from our salary from our employer and we have to find income from other places.

I didn't grow up in the slums or anything that dire, but I know what it is to grow up without having money or being able to support family.

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

I don't come from a well-off family. We're very middle-class, lower-middle-class, so that's something I cherish.

Growing up low income and poor, I didn't have the best relationship with money.

I know what it's like to be a teenager in Orange County. I know what it's like to be a kid in L.A. I know what it's like to not have any money and have your lights turned off. I know what it's like to live in a house with five rooms.

I have way more experience being poor than I do having money.

I didn't grow up with a lot of money, so my mom didn't have random money to buy me a car, and I didn't have money to have a car unless I worked, so I didn't get a car until I got my first job at 18.

I actually went to NYU for six months, had some family issues that kind of set me back, and I couldn't afford to go anymore. That was the theme going on in my whole life, you know: money stopping me from whatever I wanted to do.

Well that's probably what'll end up happening: a load of really good musicians who can't afford to be in bands, who have to have day jobs, you know what I mean? And then that's when you start losing a lot of the live touring bands.

Ask any guitar player - it's hard to feed yourself when you're picking for a living.

A lot of times I went to sleep hungry, and not because I was cutting weight for a fight.

We didn't grow up rich people.

I didn't have money growing up.

If you rode to my mother's house, it's still a two-bedroom house, one floor. She still drives the same Toyota Corolla that she drove for the last three years and is still trying to meet ends. So for them to say I received $30,000 or whatever the case is, I definitely don't think that's enough to sell out myself and my family.

I've got about three or four rooms of records, and two rooms of instruments.

Let's just shatter the illusion. I am not wealthy. I've lived in the same house for the past 30 years.