Jack White on His Canadian Roots, Love for Science and Why Fame Came as a Surprise to Him [Video]

In June 2018, Jack White was in Toronto to perform at Budweiser Stage. Before the show, he sat down with us to talk about everything—from his career to his connection to Canada. “Canada meant a lot growing up, my father side is from Nova Scotia we had a lot of ties, a lot of history through that. My grandfather travelled across Canada and taught in a railroad car,” White says. “Also growing up in Detroit basically across the street from Canada.”

He went on to say that it was currently a “difficult time in America” and that he “couldn’t even watch the news anymore.” Just the weekend before, while headlining The Governors Ball in New York City, he changed the lyrics to his song ‘Icky Thump‘ to ‘Icky Trump‘. Although, he noted that artists shouldn’t speak out as a way to pander for applause. He says, “sometimes something comes up and it makes sense…it’s hard to ignore.”

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