309 Quotes by Jack White

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.

Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don’t think so.

I think the media’s the kind of thing where the truth doesn’t win, because it’s no fun. The truth’s no fun.

I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself – you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage them.

You can’t do better than that.

I have so many projects to work on I’m going to have to live to at least 120 to get some of them done.

Every time there’s a list of the 100 greatest records of all time, all those albums were recorded in two days. Hardly any of them took a year, I’ll tell you. In this day and age, I think it’s important that people know that.

What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It’s strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.

I would never be able to live in a huge city. I’d feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.