When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

Our job is to leave the world a little better than we found it. Not the same... not worse... better.

It's too easy to do a patriotic-themed show to crawl into people's hearts and minds.

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

Kiss is the number-one American band in gold-record sales. In the world, only the Beatles and the Stones are ahead of us. Every other band should be wiping my ass. The line forms over there to the left.

It's very professionally done, very clever songwriting. I like Backstreet Boys more than 'N Sync, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, it's all very well done stuff. Much better than the Partridge Family and New Kids On The Block. I took my kids to see Backstreet Boys live and they flipped out

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.