Jack White talks about his latest visit to Detroit

Freep writer sits down with Jack White to talk about his latest musical endeavors. They get on the subject of Detroit near the end and though White's answers aren't glowingly positive, they are truthful and worth a read.

Excerpt from the Detroit Free Press:

Q: When you express this, are you sad about the state of Detroit, or sad in a personal life trajectory sense, and putting it all into that one big picture?

A: I don't know. It's kind of tough to say. That's been the problem with me all along, I think that's what that poem was all about — it's the idea of what does it mean to you? What is your environment — how much of your environment is you, how much of Detroit is me? Whether I like it or not, whether I'm positive or negative about it, or I feel it's positive or negative at certain times, how much of it makes me who I am? I don't know the answer to that question.

It's hard to talk about your environment, because people are all looking at it from a different angle. A lot of people look at Detroit from a suburban angle, from living in the suburbs. They don't even really know what it's like. Sometimes I feel like, hey, those are my kids, you know, I can call my kids ugly, but you can't call my kids ugly, because I'm from Detroit. So there's that kind of aspect, too.

But it's very difficult to determine how much of it is your own personal journey and how much is the city itself, in the bigger picture. I wish I had a clearer answer, and I don't.

Read the entire article here.