Jim Root Quotes

The other guys in Hootie were into rock. I brought the country influence.

What's interesting about Vampire Weekend, everyone in the band, except for me, had a band in high school in which they were the lead singers. And I'm the one who never had that experience.

We're closer friends in Stone Sour than I am with the guys in Slipknot and that makes life a lot easier. I'm not trying to take anything away from Slipknot.

All Montreal bands have around nine members, I believe.

Some people even went off to form another band, Power Station.

I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's band - we went to high school together. I wasn't really following metal.

One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.

I think sometimes people have a different idea of what starting a band is going to be.

Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.

I'm not a guy who grew up in theater. I've always played in rock bands.

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.

When I was about 15 I had already been recording on my four track in my room, but I couldn't find anyone in my town to be in a band with me. I was in a band very briefly with a bunch of guys and they kicked me out because they wanted to play grindcore. I think they didn't think I could tread hard enough or something. So I started playing solo.

I can't remember really what it's like to do it within Pink Floyd. In my mind, that's a thing of the past.

When you want to form a band, there's always an overwhelming lack of drummers.

I joined Alcatrazz a month after I recorded 'Steeler.' The big difference between Steeler and Alcatrazz is that in Alcatrazz, I wrote the songs. When I went to the Alcatrazz audition, they had no songs and no direction. They also had a questionable drummer.

Every band goes through breakups or splits.

Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.

I think every song Slipknot has written is a greatest hit, but there are only four records.

Dream Theater was my baby. I formed it from the beginning, out of college, and I lived a lifetime with them.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don't realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

We really do get along, I think because we have a bit of respect for each other being in a band. But, of course, we're brothers.

When you're in a band, it's kind of a big thing to be friends as well.

I really believe Slipknot's rich with history and rich with things.