If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'