Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.

I never thought being the producer was being the dictator. It means being the director and being the coach. It's a way of keeping everybody focused on the goal, and also having final say. Everybody can be in the same car, but somebody has to drive.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.