Jack White Talks to the Times

"I started trying to make an art form out of giving someone a bill, like writing it with crayon on a piece of paper, or having a yellow piece of paper with black marker saying, ‘You owe me $300.’ People would be like, ‘What the hell is this?’ and I’d be like, ‘I don’t know, I just want you to sign this and give it back to me and pay me, and that way I can have it as a… um…’ People just didn’t dig it. It was two different worlds colliding."

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