PAUL STANLEY Talks KISS, Art

The Boston Globe recently conducted an interview with KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stankey. An excerpt from the chat follows:

Q: What's going on with KISS?

Stanley: I'm on my way to rehearsal in about an hour. We'll be playing in Australia and New Zealand next month, and then we're doing a really large tour of Europe. Stadiums in Stockholm and Helsinki sold out in 20 minutes.

Q: A band I thought was a cool novelty act way back when has managed to make quite a go of it.

Stanley: What can I say? Sometimes beauty is in the ear of the beholder.

Q: Tell me about the art? Who knew you even painted?

Stanley: I actually started about eight years ago. I was getting divorced, and sometimes you reach a point in traumatic situations like that where you can scream and bang your head against the wall or do something else. Someone suggested I should paint. I didn't know what I was going to do, but I knew I wasn't going to depict reality.

Read the entire interview at The Boston Globe.