Quotes by Jack White

“I'm always surprised when anything about the band connects. But I love the fact that it's hard for people to understand. We've said before that it's always been a great thing to get certain people ...”

“Frank Sinatra was dignified. We don't have a Frank Sinatra, or a Patti Page nowadays. What do we have? Ashlee Simpson instead of Patti Page! I mean, look at those people - like Paris Hilton! Who ar...”

“I feel it, you felt it—we're all struggling with the trouble that this industry is in right now. And it's not about sales; it's about beauty and romance and a relationship to art that's turning inv...”

“I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.”

“I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.”

“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 impor...”

“At times, we [the White Stripes] almost ignore our own music. If we have the stage, we've gotta play Son House's music, because there's nobody to keep it alive. We don't wanna be known as the band ...”

“'I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes...”

“Is this some kind of fucking radio promotion? What the fuck is this? Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like the...”

“You can't do better than that.”

“Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.”

“I tend to be that guy, you know? When me and four friends walk into a restaurant and nobody else talks to the host, I say, Yeah, it’s a table for five. I don’t want to be that guy; I wish someone e...”

“It'll sometimes hit me in the middle of a song, like, who do I think I am standing up here...playing.”

“I saw a review of our new album, and it said, Every single component of the White Stripes is a gigantic lie. What does that mean? Have I sat down and said I was born in Mississippi? No. Did I say I...”

“I'm not saying I came up with anything [laughs]. It's like people thinking we would be more real if we went onstage in jeans and T-shirts. How ignorant is that, to think that because they don't wea...”