Jack White revealed that he went “5 days with no meals” whereas writing his new albums.
The songwriter mentioned he was impressed by a century-old e book to see how the state of his physique would have an effect on his artistic output. The expertise added a brand new sort of vitality to his newest information, April’s Worry of the Daybreak and July’s Coming into Heaven Alive.
“I wished to see what I’d write beneath these situations, beneath that concept — being alone and fasting — what my mind and my physique would give you,” White informed Q on CBC in a latest interview (video beneath). “Would I get pissed off? Would I get offended? Would I get upset? Would I be depressed? What sort of lyrics would come out?”
He detailed the outcomes of his experiment, which adopted studying Upton Sinclair’s 1911 e book, The Fasting Remedy. “So possibly typically you may get a music like ‘If I Die Tomorrow,’” he joked, earlier than persevering with: “But in addition comfortable issues got here out it, issues like ‘Queen of the Bees.’ It’s an attention-grabbing factor I used to be exploring, and I nonetheless discover that — what your physique does. The quantity of vitality your physique will get on the second, third day from that’s excellent, It is to not be believed.”
White emphasised that he wasn’t suggesting that anybody else ought to take the same well being danger, regardless that it labored out for him. “You are looking for issues to do with this vitality. […] You’re in a zone the place you’re discovering issues that I’d not have usually performed on a Wednesday afternoon.”
He mentioned the expertise was all about retaining management: “I can break the situation at will – at any time when I really feel like, I can go and eat some meals or drink one thing, no matter. I’m in charge of it as a result of I created it.” White repeated that he was “not telling different individuals to do it.”
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