Jack White has spoken to the New Yorker, giving a rare interview, and an update on the progress of his latest solo album. The former White Stripes, Dead Weather, and Raconteurs man is currently recording in Nashville, Tennessee, working on the follow up to 2014’s Lazaretto.

White delved into his new recording process in the interview, revealing that he has been recording using a reel-to-reel tape machine, that he purchased age 14, with money he made from “mowing lawns.” The piece not only shed light on the recording equipment being used, but also the habitat in which the record is being recorded, with the singer revealing that the sparse space includes only his recording equipment, a cot to sleep in, four windows, with all the blinds drawn closed.

Speaking about the unorthodox setup Whit said”If I could just break my leg and be in the hospital for six weeks, what would it be like? Something about a room and a cot and a little space. You have nothing to do”

White also elaborated about a shift in his writing style, to a more subtle process, saying “I’m going to try to write songs where I can’t be heard by the next-do or neighbour,” the 41-year-old said. “And I want to write like Michael Jackson would write — instead of writing parts on the instruments or humming melodies, you think of them. To do everything in my head and to do it in silence and use only one room”