I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.
Gene Simmons
Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.
I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me.
The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money.
I fail all of the time. It means nothing.
Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it.
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.
The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.
I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.
No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.
Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. You can have a good seat at the restaurant, but you still have to pay for the meal. Fame is important, but to be rich is more important.
I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.
I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something.
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.
If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.
The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.
I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mountains. I'm always bugged by the notion that I can't do everything.
I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.
I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.
Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.
Everybody hates critics.
I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.
I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.
When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.
I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts.
Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.
I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate.
England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped.
I think I know it all, relatively speaking.
If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.
There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart.
James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.
Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.
The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.
The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.
I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.
Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.
You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.
I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.
Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.
Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.
