Quotes from Jack White

Success is having a career that you love with every fiber in your body.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Telling yourself you have all the time in the world, all the colors in the palette, that just kills creativity.

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 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've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

I have never in my whole life asked for an autograph. It seems a little ... unnecessary.

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.

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

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

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

I wanted to be able to talk with people who have trade jobs and make records with them. I want to do more records with carpenters, electricians, people who specialize in even more bizarre trades that are off the beaten path.

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

I trust no one who hasn't time for music.

The bottom line is we must get off our duff and make an effort to succeed. Trust me on this, when you see someone successful in any of the arts they have been willing to make an extra effort.

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 want love to roll me over slowly stick a knife inside me, and twist it all around.... I want love to walk right up and bite me grab a hold of me and fight me leave me dying on the ground.

I love the Arctic Monkeys . Who doesn't? I'd love to see them live, but haven't got round to it yet. I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.

I love the way art moves people emotionally. I love the fact that when someone purchases art it is the one thing that will last for generations.

I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

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.