Jack White has refuted gossip that he's quit White Stripes in favour of his new band The Raconteurs, and says that he finds his first band just as interesting as he ever did, despite his high profile 'side project'. White told The Independent: "I find the White Stripes extremely fulfilling. It's extremely challenging. It's harder to be in the White Stripes than in this. I don't get to break for a second when the Stripes play live". Nevertheless, it's been confirmed that The Raconteurs with release a second album before White Stripes release a new long player.
White adds that he's gone through a lot of changes in the last couple of years (thinking it's okay to shill for major corporations presumably being a part of that). He says: "I'm a different person from what I was two years ago, which is about keeping out of negative environments and getting into positive environments."
Elsewhere, White has denied reports that he has ever likened The Raconteurs' debut album 'Broken Boy Soldiers' to Nirvana's breakthrough album 'Nevermind'. White says he was surprised by claims that he and fellow Raconteur Brendan Benson had compared the two long players, and explained: "That was a big misunderstanding. A friend of ours heard 'Nevermind' six months before it came out, and I played him ours before it came out. He said it was the same feeling he got with 'Nevermind'. You know, this is a really good record and it's going to be big but none of us ever said such a thing. It's ridiculous, who would ever make such a statement? We were really bummed that it got put out."