Jack White Covers Interview May 2012

He just released his solo debut album "Blunderbus" and, as part of the promotions, Jack White took over the cover of the May 2012 issue of Interview magazine.

The 36-year-old former White Stripes rocker suited up for the Craig McDean shot spread while opening up about topics such as why he split from his band and growing up in Detroit, Michigan.

Highlights from Mr. White's interview are as follows. For more, be sure to pay a visit to Interview!

On growing up in 1970s Detroit, Michigan:
“You know, I think you learn how to walk down the street in a certain way. I think you just learn to have a way about yourself, a style of walking down the street, that keeps people away from you.”

On working with Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan:
“We put out a record on Third Man [a seven-inch of composer John Boswell's "A Glorious Dawn," which features spoken-word portions by both Sagan and Hawking]. That's one of the records that I'm proudest of having released. Carl Sagan was a huge influence . . . We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer space. We want to launch a balloon that carries a vinyl record player, and possibly that Carl Sagan record, and figure out a way to drop the needle with all that turbulence up there and ensure that it will still play.”

On why he split up The White Stripes:
“That's a good question. [laughs] I ask myself that all the time. Sometimes things last for a finite period, and I just didn't feel like it was the right thing to keep playing anymore, so we had to put a stop to it. But also, I didn't want to go out and make solo records if The White Stripes still existed. I thought that people would be too confused by the two ideas and a lot of people wouldn't be able to get their head around it. So, in a sense, it was something that was bound to happen one day. But I'm sad about it all the time.”




























Photo Credit: Craig McDean for Interview