I dabbled in things like Howlin Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something Id been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues. – Jack White
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends grandparents. – Jack White
I think you cant really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child, whether its New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You cant escape it, even if you completely disagree with it, you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of. – Jack White
When you put something out there into the world, theres all these words you dont want to hear, that you hope people dont say. I dont like anything that starts with re – like retro, reinvent, recreate – I hate that. Its always like living in the past – copying, emulating. – Jack White
All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I dont subscribe to any of that. Its all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the 70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the 80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the 90s. Whos to say what is and isnt a certain type of music? – Neil Young