Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I hate sunshine so much. I can only cope with it when it's bitterly, bitterly cold.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

Every day, it's a different country, different time zone. If you asked me where home was, I've never felt like I've had that. My idea of comfort is to leave a place. Two weeks is sort of my max.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

When I was really young, my mum used to make my clothes - I hated that. I liked the way boys dressed - I still do. I wanted to wear what they wore.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

Being on the road, I think, is the most organised part of my life. You know where you have to be every day; you know what your job is every day. I crave that tiny bit of stability, which anyone else would think is the most unstable way of living, ever.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I love being on stage more than anything, and I think that's what comes across. I think the most honest representation of any music is to play it right there in front of people. It's a moment - it's all one of a kind, every little part of it. There's no repeat.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I have so many ideas while I'm driving.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

Over the years, my art box has gotten bigger and bigger.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I write music visually.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I just sang at first - I didn't ever play guitar before The Kills.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I get along great with my family. My parents are really proud of me and my brother, who's a chef here in New York. I don't see my parents often, but they're very supportive, especially as I get older.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

If I'm at a party, and there are lots of people running around, you'll most likely find me on the floor, painting... I want to be at the party, but I want to do something. I'm just not very idle at all.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

I do always want to be creating something; I can't help it. I don't know why that is, but I'm certainly not gonna knock it now, at the age of 36. It seems to be working.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

Touring can be repetitive at times.

Alison Mosshart
Alison Mosshart

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.