Meg White
Meg White
Megan Martha "Meg" Whiteis an American drummer known for her work with Jack White in the Detroit rock duo The White Stripes. On an impulse, she played on Jack's drums in 1997. The two decided to form a band and began performing two months later, calling themselves The White Stripes because of their last name and Meg's preference for peppermint candy. The band quickly became a Detroit underground favorite, before reaching national, then international fame. White has been nominated for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth10 December 1974
CityGrosse Point Farms, MI
CountryUnited States of America
I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.
I'm just not used to singing that much.
I have to have the cotton candy shipped in.
Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.
I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.
I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I don't want to find out what they're really like.
It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
Then we're going to take a lot of time off because in the last three years we've been touring continuously.
It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.
It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
It's cool to meet your idols. It's a good opportunity to travel. Those kinds of things are good.
I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.
Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me.
Maybe I'm a little more confident than I used to be, but not much.