Jack white

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...

The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't.

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

People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in -...

The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for...

The way I like to start a new project is to take a cover song and make a stab at it, ideally one that has nothing to do with the people in the room.

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.

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...

If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.

I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.