#ed

An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it. ↗

— Jack White

#american tradition #feels #head #hundreds #i

I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don't know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose. ↗

— Jack White

#care #come #evil #first #i

I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. ↗

— Jack White

#any #base #buddhism #child #completely

Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question. ↗

— Jack White

#answered #assumes #because #everybody #get

There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so when nice things happen to you, you're not really allowed to enjoy them. ↗

— Jack White

#allowed #being #catholic #catholic guilt #enjoy

Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single. ↗

— Meg White

#even #first #gonna #last #minute

For new bands, I think a major label is the safest place to be. Independent labels are the ones getting away with murder. A lot of them are hobbyists who rip-off young bands, taking advantage of people who would never get signed to a major. ↗

— Jack White

#away #bands #get #getting #i

I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical. ↗

— Jack White

#came #catholic #catholic guilt #come #egotistical

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange. ↗

— Jack White

#certainly #commercial #i #seems #song

I grew up in the 90s in the time of grunge when if you didn't go on stage in jeans and a T shirt you weren't 'real.' That seemed ridiculous to me. ↗

— Jack White

#grew #grunge #i #jeans #me