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 have to have the cotton candy shipped in.
I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.
Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.
I'm just not used to singing that much.
Even at the last minute we were still debating what was gonna be released as the first single.
That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates.
Downtown Detroit has more vacant buildings over 10 storeys than any city in the world.
It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.
I've never been much into picking things apart.
It's hard to get that real good feeling about festivals sometimes.
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.
There's nothing I'm doing these days that I ever thought I was gonna do.
I've always kind of lived in my own world.