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If you're asking if I would be foolish enough, or insulting enough, to write about people in my life that I respect and sell it to the masses as a break-up song, I can't imagine doing that to people I love.
Jack White
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Jack White
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 9
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when the wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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