Meg White Quotes

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

I like the idea of stepping back into another time period.

We started putting '2000' at the end of our name. That was in 1985, and 2000 seemed very futuristic.

I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

I'm from another time period. E-mailing sometimes, for me, is difficult.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

I exist only in the past.

It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.

A song can take you to a special time in your life.

I would've liked to have been Poussin, if I'd had a choice, in another time.

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

There is always something rather absurd about the past.

Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life, and it really is like you're still there.

Our memory is and always will be as good as time travel gets, and in the meantime time will do the travelling for us.

All of our records seem to capture a certain period of time for us.

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.