I’m not saying I’ll never go solo – never is a long time – but I’ve always been onstage with someone else. That way, you’re in it together, and you can feel, together, when the songs are right. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
I’ve spent my whole life in airports. I don’t come home but every two and a half months, which is pretty crazy. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Every time I do a project, it always comes with a level of discomfort and not knowing how to do it. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
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. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
In the studio, you can always stop, rewind and do it again, but on stage, you can never do that – it’s a different energy. It separates good bands from bad bands, being able to play, perform and really capture an audience. I think that’s the hardest part. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
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. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
Everybody wants you to do this thing that you’ve always been doing forever. That’s what they want: they want Martin Scorsese to make the same film two hundred times rather than trying to be something different. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
I used to go to a lot of Pam Hogg shows. The thing about London Fashion Week is that, generally, we’re on tour and traveling around, so it’s very rare that I actually catch it. I like to go to Burberry because I know a few girls who work there. I kind of follow friends. Alison Mosshart Read Quote
The crazy colors tend to wash out so quick. Basically, it ensures that you never wash your hair, so it starts to do some cool stuff. Alison Mosshart Read Quote