‘I just like drawing and making stuff’: Chrissie Hynde in her studio at her London flat. Photograph: Gabby Laurent.

Rock stars becoming painters remains one the most cliched career transitions in showbiz… Hynde has reservations about entering this gang. “I mean, who the fuck am I? There’s so many people who’ve been doing this all their lives and they can’t get a gallery… and then muggins walks in, dabbles for a couple of years and the next thing, here’s a big fuck-off box set of her paintings!” She laughs at herself, although she’s not a phoney, she says. “I’m really doing this shit. But yeah, I’m embarrassed by it. Of course I am!”

(Jude Rogers, “Chrissie Hynde: ‘It’s hard work being alone. Paintings are an outlet,'” The Guardian, 11-4-18)

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