Explore Quotes by Gene Simmons

I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.

I work for everything I've got. I started off as a very poor kid. I want to get paid.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

I don't sleep all that much, but when I do, it's sound.

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids.

If you're building a house, or doing anything, time is what you've got. Well, there's effort, but you need time. The more time you put into something, the better stuff you can make.

Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.

I have to have an emotional connection to what I am ultimately selling because it is emotion, whether you are selling religion, politics, even a breath mint.

I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mountains. I'm always bugged by the notion that I can't do everything.

I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.

Everybody hates critics.

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

If you win a race, you don't ask how you did it, as long as you do it.

If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You don't have to go to school.

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.