Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

My sense is that file sharing started in predominantly white, middle- and upper-middle-cl ass young people who were native-born, who felt they were entitled to have something for free, because that's what they were used to.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Well being in Kiss is having a more limited spectrum. It's a smaller playground to play in because there are limitations. I'm the big bad wolf and I'm supposed to do this and that. There are rules, which are self imposed I must say, but there are rules. We break enough of them, but the truth is that being Gene Simmons in an album called 'Asshole' forged me the opportunity of just recreating myself. Very much Jekyll and Hyde. Mr. Hyde is the big bad guy and Dr. Jekyll has studied and both are connected.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.