Jack: I never get to see bands because I'm never in the same town for more than two seconds.
Jack: I'm one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I'll wander off into the woods and forget to come back.
Jack: Don't ask me my opinion and then punish me for the answer I give you!
Jack: I have so many collections, the doctors told me that I couldn’t collect people anymore, only their personalities and memories. So I have that going for me.
Jack: There was a small boy at the airport, maybe two years old, who came over to me and stood in front of me. I gave him a record that you can only get from me. He laughed and stared. For a second I wished I was no one else but myself. I'll never see him again but he was the most beautiful thing I've seen in a while.
Jack: Let me just say that if whatever said radio station tries to blacklist us for my comments about their balloons, I would like them to know I want a written apology tomorrow for interrupting my song.
Jack: Art is only worth what people will pay for it. Artists do not get paid by the hour.
Jack: It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.
Jack: The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.
Jack: I don't think there is room for "artistic temperament." Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.
Jack and his wife, British model Karen Elson, celebrated the arrival of their first child, Scarlett Teresa, who was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 2nd 2006.
Jack has said that the first album is the most "Detroit-sounding."
Jack says that the White Stripes revolve around the number three, which he decided after seeing a three legged stool.
Jack says his furniture repair business was not profitable because of percieved unprofessionalism.
Jack has said he has told Meg not to practice, so her sound would stay the same.
Jack played bass on the song "Go It Alone" from the Beck album, Guero.
Jack collects stuffed animal heads because he claims they make him think about life and judging things.
As an altar boy, Jack appeared in the film The Rosary Murders, which was filmed in the Holy Redeemer church in Detroit.
Jack's favorite blues musicians are Son House and Blind Willie McTell.
Jack's father was a maintenence man and his mother was a secretary, and they both worked in the same church.
Jack appeared in the film Cold Mountain as a traveling musician.
In 2003, Jack was in a car accident in which he broke his finger, causing him to cancel several White Stripes concerts.
Jack won a Grammy for Best Rock Song in 2003 for Seven Nation Army.
Jack likes to collect ancient human bones and taxidermic objects.
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