Jack White has just declared that he has no intention of turning public breakup stories into songs like Taylor Swift. When asked by The Guardian if he often writes from personal experience, the former White Stripes frontman replied, "Not too much."
"Nowadays, it's become very popular for pop singers to write about their publicly aired breakups in the Taylor Swift style, which I find completely uninteresting," Jack added. "For me, it's a bit boring to write about myself."
The creator of "Seven Nation Army" said he prefers to channel difficult or emotional experiences into fictional characters rather than presenting them directly. He explained, "If it's something really painful, I'm not going to put this important, painful thing that I went through out there for some idiot on the internet to stomp all over."
"So, I put a percentage of that into what I do and then morph it into somebody else's character. I can't really learn about myself until I put it into somebody else's shoes," Jack further mentioned.
The musician also addressed why he has never written overtly political songs, despite being outspoken about figures such as US President Donald Trump. He said, "Well, when [Bob] Dylan said the answer was blowing in the wind, he didn't tell you what the answer was."
"I think a lot of people in the protest days were torn: you want to make a statement but the speaker can be chewed up and spat out. The search for hypocrisy becomes intense once somebody takes the podium and condemns somebody else," the "High Ball Stepper" rocker mentioned.
The music icon also made it clear that even though he is comfortable speaking plainly about politics in interviews, he wouldn't take that same approach in his music. "When it comes to the president, I know a lot about it so I feel comfortable saying it. But if I were to put it in artistic form, I don't think I would say those things directly. I wouldn't say the names. I would make up a character," Jack White concluded.
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