Alana Haim
I don't know anyone that doesn't get emotional around their birthday.Collection: Birthday
Being a woman in a power position and dating someone, in my experience, is hard.Collection: Dating
I'm a mouth breather - which is disgusting to say - and I snore.
There is nothing better than coming off stage and being all sweaty and not partying.
When I have adrenaline, I'll pretty much say yes to anything.
I've always struggled with cystic acne. I still haven't figured out how to combat it. My skin texture is bumpy. Seeing myself on screen with it was not that bad, though. I actually love the acne. It's me, and that's who I'm going to be.
I always say this, but it's incredibly hard to capture live music. It's so hard because there's something that happens between the artist and the camera and the energy that goes from one point to the other, and you just lose so much of that emotion. I don't know. It gets lost. It's like the energy gets lost and it doesn't hit the camera.
You hear a lot from other musicians that the muse can leave forever.
I've always been obsessed with Albert Brooks. He is my celebrity crush. I'm looking for my Albert Brooks.
My favorite movie growing up actually is Defending Your Life because I'm obsessed with Albert Brooks.
I'm a terrible driver.
We were an American band and no one cared about us in America.
My hair is frizzy and thick. I can't use a blow dryer so I have to air-dry it. It takes about half a day.
Sometimes I turn my zits into moles. I get brown eyeliner and just dab it. Pat McGrath has a great pencil I've used.
I always gravitate to perfume with rose. My mom's maiden name is Rose, and the scent of my childhood was always rose. Le Sirenuse has a rose perfume, and it's so good.
My mom was an art teacher at an elementary school in Studio City. She was younger than I am now when she was teaching there, and she only got the job because the previous art teacher had a heart attack in the parking lot.
Paul saw one of our videos around the time we released our 'Forever' EP, and he was talking about it at a party. Someone gave him our email address, and he invited us to his house for dinner. We were like, 'Let's not tell Paul Thomas Anderson that mom taught him art. Everyone hates their teachers growing up.'
My sisters and I live and breathe the Valley. In the '80s, it got a really bad rap, with Valley girls and all that. I grew up loving it because everyone hated it, and that weirdly made me feel proud of it.
I played the Wicked Witch of the West, twice.
My dad has eagle-eye hearing. None of us ever successfully snuck out of my house ever.
I feel like that first love is just so deeply intense. The first cut is the deepest. All the songs are true, and you never have a love like that ever again. I think that's a thing that's kind of sad about it. Once you have that first love that cuts you so deeply, you never will feel that deeply ever again.
I'm very L.A. in that sense, where I'm very into star science and horoscopes and all that jazz.
People ask us what's the most rock-star thing we've done. Maybe they watch too many '80s documentaries about bands from the '80s. They're like, 'Do you throw TVs out the window?' And I'm like, 'No. I don't even know why anyone did that in the first place.'
The energy coming off of Bradley Cooper playing Jon Peters was insane.
Joseph Cross is one of the most incredible actors and so is Benny Safdie.
I got this email from Paul Thomas Anderson. It was a script and one of the characters' names was Alana. I immediately freaked out because Paul was using my name. I was just happy with the name being used. I think I read it three times that night. I called him and I gushed about it. And he asked if I wanted to play Alana Kane. Of course I said yes.
My go-to karaoke song that brings down the house is 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin'.' I always start with that. And then, as the night goes on, maybe there's a Creed moment, maybe there's a Mariah Carey moment, but I do it very badly.
I like feeling like home.
Obviously, our first show was at Canter's. We've thrown parties at Canter's. We shot the video for 'Summer Girl' at Canter's. We'd go there growing up and have chocolate Rugelach and Matzah ball soup and it's the best.
Obviously, like, we'll always be an album band. I love putting on albums.
I don't want there to ever go a day when the people that I love so much don't know that I love them.
We're such a close-knit family in general.
Going through depression is a process - it doesn't get cured overnight. You have to really work on yourself, you have to really check in with yourself constantly. Having a therapist is great.
It's the best movie. If anyone has not seen 'A Goofy Movie,' go see it.
Everyone knows on this planet I'm obsessed with Beyonce.
I'll never let go of my 818 area code. It won't happen, ever.
Honestly, I never thought that a thing that I do every day - walk - would make such an impact on people, but I guess we're super good at walking. And we're from Los Angeles, so that's an oxymoron. No one does that here - songs have been written about such things.
I'm not good at makeup.
I don't think it's a surprise, but beauty was not at the forefront for us. There are some photos of me from early Haim that I'm like, 'What? What is going on?'
There is really no drama. We have been playing in a band since we were, like, five.
All we knew for two years was wake up, soundcheck, play the show, go to sleep and fit in a slice of pizza at some point.
I grew up listening to Tom Petty's 'You Got Lucky,' where the whole theme is, 'You're lucky to be with me.' I never really heard a song that said that from a woman's perspective.
I've been called 'entourage' at festival. I got on a golf cart this one time and the guy said, 'Miss, get off.' I said, 'I play in Haim.' He said, 'Never heard of you, please get off.' Is that how you look at me, for real? I couldn't possibly be playing - I must be someone's girlfriend.
Being a little sister, I feel like your job is to be the wrangler of the family.
We're pretty much the biggest perfectionists.
The first five years we just played every show we could play in L.A. All we wanted to do was play. Then finally we realized we were playing too much.
My mom is a baby angel of this earth.
I don't know how our parents have dealt with us after all these years. We were pretty angsty teens.
We never wrote songs with our parents.
I hate being on camera. Being on stage is totally fine, but when it comes to music videos, I'm always like, 'Are my eyes crossed?'