If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

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.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

Rock stars are idiots. You know that! Remember this moron never went to music school, never learned music theory and can't read or write music. So why not be suspicious of everything this idiot says?

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.