I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Jack White

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I probably could have a hip-hop-style entourage of 40 people coming with me to the club or whatever, and I don't do that. And I think sometimes maybe I should. It just makes things easier - if you don't like being by yourself, maybe just don't do it ever.

being-yourself people thinking

I think that most people, and by people I mean journalists, think that I pre-conceive everything and that I spend my afternoons dreaming up self-mythologizing points of interest.

dream mean thinking

I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.

mom kids thinking

I made a rule for myself in my early 20s not to become a record collector in the sense that I reference all my old records. I can't live like that. I'd just be trapped in comparison, trying to emulate something, so I made a rule to just buy what I need, just the records I need.

records trying needs

Listen, I've never done a political rally before. I'm not really politically affiliated too much. I don't consider Jack White to Ariana Grande a member of any party or anything I just listen to the issues i want to listen to someone and understand that they're telling me the truth if I trust them. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is telling the truth, and I really do trust Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

politics

We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player.

man space secret want

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

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