After cancelling all tours for 2007, The White Stripes's frontman Jack White has suggested he might like to pass on touring indefinitely. When asked by the Los Angeles Times whether the touring hiatus would come to an end, he replied:

I don't know. I guess it's up to Meg. The Beatles did it [quit touring but continued as a band]. I'm joking, but if we didn't ever tour again it wouldn't matter to me. here are so many different aspects to being creative that it doesn't matter if one component is changed. It's been changing all the time since the band started.

If something [touring] isn't working for you and it's detrimental to you, then you have to figure out a new way to attack it, a new way to look at it. I think that's what Meg's doing.

The band released Icky Thump this year.