I never really planned on playing music. But it was a thing I'd always done, since I was young. So it just carried me away; I never really had to make a plan for it or make any decisions. It just sort of decided on me. And I don't know what the hell I would have done otherwise.

Alison Mosshart

Categorized in : Decision Done Hell

Performing to me is the most vital, most important. It's my favorite part of all of it. I just want to be on stage.

Alison Mosshart

my-favorite important want

The more nervous I am, and the more insane a situation is, the more I love it and get addicted to it. That's why I love playing on stage. And I kind of freak out if I don't get to do it, because it's a big part of my sanity, I think.

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freak insane thinking

Totally. I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular. You’re just enjoying it, and making something because you love it, and love the people that you’re playing with. I guess everything happens as a reason.

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expectations beautiful thinking

If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.

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percent projects sides

A lot of people don't like touring because it's monotonous and you're waiting around a lot but for me it's great. I'm inspired by being in a different town every day - all the people I meet, all the things I see.

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different waiting people

All of my art is suitcase-sized. I always paint in mediums that dry pretty quickly because I've got to throw them in my suitcase and go. And I have so much because of that, because it's what I've always done to pass the time and I like it.

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paint done art

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.

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skateboarding brain art

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

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painter creative interesting

Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.

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stage song night

It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

Alison Mosshart

hate song goodbye

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

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different hate people

I think you have to find your own language. You find your footing with it, and you start to express it in certain ways.

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language way thinking

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.

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learning music work love

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

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sunshine cold i-can hate

I have so many ideas while I'm driving.

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while many driving ideas

When you're recording in the midst of touring, you get a different sense about you. Things are more rocking, darker, heavier and louder. You're thinking about the audience that you're seeing every night.

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things you night thinking

Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it.

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project always not-knowing time

I can't talk on the radio at all. When the red light comes on, my hands go up in the air: I think they're trying to get to my face, to shut me up. I don't talk on stage for the same reason.

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face me red light

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.

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painting action want thinking

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

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box over years art