Jim Root Quotes

Don't ask me about Beverly Hills High School. Everybody hated it. I hated it. Hated it. Hated it. Hated it.

I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

'Prince of Persia' just didn't turn out to be what I thought it was going to be.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.

If I am in a beautiful place, but I don't like the people, I am miserable.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

If you talk about the 'Tango in the Night' album, the reason I didn't do that tour was because the album took about 10 months, and it was such an uncreative atmosphere.

A lot of times, I don't want to listen to my stuff, because I'm thinking maybe I didn't do my best.

Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.

Making 'Sound of Silver' was very emotional at times, where I just hated making that record.

I hate re-recording. I like singing, but I don't like recording a song over and over, making it too perfect.

Obviously, when the results aren't going your way, it's difficult to find too much joy in the matches.

It's kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.

I know that Perugia is probably the least-welcome place for me in the entire world.

I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.

I recorded this album in a windowless room in Brooklyn by myself. I think Chamber of Reflection sums the album up better than Salad Days to tell you the truth.

That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

This is the industry that wants [music], the rap industry. You have to be on deck all the time, but you do not have the time to do the album. It is an energy, it must be present in everyday life.

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out. But I've also always loved the technology part of it. I've always loved the studio part. Making albums. Besides writing songs, which has been my primary thing, making records would be second. Obviously, touring would be third. Touring wasn't my favorite thing to do, but the first few tours were pretty fun. Seeing the world and everything.

As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.