309 Quotes by Jack White

It’s funny because when you do become successful, you’re forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

Maybe we should all just listen to records and quit our jobs.

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.

I won’t let love disrupt, corrupt, or interrupt me.

The wonderful news is that when a person with my lack of art background can be successful, then anyone can. I’m not super talented and had no art training. Nothing, nada, zip. No workshops or classes.

Onstage, I don’t feel any glory from people clapping in the audience, but when they’re pushing me to do something new that feels good.

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.

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.

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It’s a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.