“I’ve recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn’t help you make a better record.”

I’m just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.

If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

I just didn’t expect an acoustic version of Rock’n’Roll All Nite.

I mean, nothing ever really happened with ’em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Whenever I start to really think about what I’m playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn’t there.

I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.

Sure it does. But if you don’t have the balls to give it a shot, you’re destined to fail.

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album ‘New York Groove’.

She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.

I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field?

I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y’know, the bottom line is she’s 18!

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

I’m narrating the television series Biography. I’m still involved in my music – I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I’m writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

I’d done three solo albums in a row, and that’s quite narcissistic.

I never liked making albums.

Someone told me once that Lucinda Williams takes six years between albums, and that’s what stuck to me; it’s like, you really are a factory. You don’t do things to make them, on your own time.

The worst thing about me is that I’ll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I’ve got them.

Using what you have always enhances what’s to come no matter if it’s an album, song, artwork or whatever.

You never know when you put out an album that’s unique whether it’ll get beat up for it or not.