Musician Jack White tells Dan Rather in a Tuesday night episode of "The Big Interview" that it was difficult to stay in Detroit after he broke into the mainstream, according to Yahoo Music.
But White, who now lives in Nashville, says he also found it tough to move.
"Detroit, I always imagined I was going to be there my whole life. It always felt like my home – even as hard as it is to live there, it always felt that way to me."
Yahoo reports that White says he and former Stripes bandmate Meg White were blindsided by the city's cynicism after "breaking into the mainstream."
"When you're in that kind of cynical environment, it's hard for people to understand how to relate to it," he says. "It was hard for me to understand. . . When you win the lottery, what do you do? You give your brothers and sisters a million dollars if you win the lottery, they're going to end up hating you a couple of years later."
He tells Rather that it felt uncomfortable to stay in Detroit and create at that point, so he headed south, first to Georgia and Louisiana before settling in Nashville, Yahoo writes.
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