Little rooms

I myself have been in a lot of bands you’ve prob­ably never heard of, but for some reason people espe­cially con­nected with this one two-piece duo project that I was in called The White Stripes.

We don’t know why these things con­nect with people, but, when they do, it’s the most beau­tiful thing you can have as an artist or a musician, when people are responding and sharing with you. So, to the young artists, I wanna say, get your hands dirty and drop the screens and get out in your garage or your little room and get obsessed—get obsessed with some­thing, you know. Get passionate.

One thing that Jack said … he said some­thing about little rooms. And … we started in a little—

Little rooms. Great things start in little rooms. That’s it.

“The value of print is actu­ally not about paper. It’s about the set of demands and offer­ings that that paper has,” Sloan posited. “Privacy, stability, reliability, sovereignty.” Sloan offered other adjectives, too: Print was tactile, giftable, col­lectible, durable. Print can also be a little mischievous, whether as notes passed in class or samizdat cir­cu­lated under author­i­tarian regimes.

I regret the short­com­ings that hold back