Jack White on the value of teaching yourself ...

DRE: What do you think teaching yourself did for you?

JACK: I guess that it's more natural. I asked someone when I was younger to teach me how to play guitar and he said, “No one ever taught me.” I'm glad that he didn't show me because it's better to teach yourself how to do it because you're more in tune with it. I play chords for example, with these two fingers [holds up two outside fingers] and that's not the way that you're supposed to do it. If you're taught how to play guitar, you use four fingers. Of course, I'm not very good anymore because I can't bend that finger anymore since I broke it. So that's been a new battle, which I'm learning how to deal with. I think that it's something that's more natural and it's more coming from yourself and I think that also helped with songwriting.