Jack White is a bit of a weirdo. For all his brilliance he is half mad and it would surprise me in the least if he didnt just pop one day. Eccentric is too light a word but I do believe most genius are.
On the press junket for his soon to be released album Lazaretto he’s babbling like a brook about just about anything. He got a bit introspective and somewhat melancholy over youth- it’s not as if he’s in the twilight of his days but hey let the man chat
“It’s hard. You end up becoming jealous of your younger self. That old phrase of that problem with youth is that it’s wasted on the young. It is. And when you have children of your own, you realize how much they don’t realize how beautiful each moment of the day is. Even if you stop and look them in the eyes and tell them how beautiful this moment is, they still don’t know what you’re talking about. They’re just happy. That’s a strange thing. I’m in a period of my life where you’re not let off the hook. You’re let off the hook from a toddler to a teenager. You’re let off the hook when you’re a senior citizen, retired, you can do whatever you want. You walk in, take your pants down in the supermarket, no one gives a damn. But I’m in the middle period now where there’s no leeway.”
Lazaretto is based upon characters of his youth, at age 38 White went on
“This is the experienced version of me talking to the inexperienced version of me,” he continues. “There’s a beautiful mind meld going on there and something you can’t even explain to anybody. You just can only hear the fruit of that struggle between these two people.”
It may be best to just stick to his music and skip reading the interview… yeah.
