PAUL ON HIS ART & KISS

Paul Stanley has a deal with himself.

'I don't bring guitars into my painting studio, and I don't bring paintbrushes on stage,' he said in a recent phone interview. 'You have to be able to close one door when you open another.'

Obviously, the KISS frontman still rocks all night -- three and a half decades after his glam metal band formed. In fact, they've been tearing it up on the European leg of the KISS Alive/35 World Tour.

'(It's) the most successful tour ever.