I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
Gene SimmonsTo be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.
Gene SimmonsWell 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.
Gene Simmons