“I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don’t think there’s anybody out there that’s doing a bigger or a better show than us.”

That’s why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift… for those who are willing to receive it.

I can’t even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

That’s what Kiss is all about – not just music, but entertainment, y’know? We’re there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you’re at the concert.

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids?

Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.

. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I’m in love.

I don’t like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don’t play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.

I’m not here to perform. I’m here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

I’m the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

People, y’know, they either love us or they hate us; there’s no middle ground.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.

By the time I’m 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn’t have to pay me.

I went to my friend’s house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp

It doesn’t matter where anybody lives, we’re all here.

The riches of successful entrepreneurs is not the cause of anybody’s poverty; it is the consequence of the fact that the consumers are better supplied than they would have been in the absence of the entrepreneur’s efforts.

I actually don’t think that I’m that much smarter than anybody else. It’s just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that’s wisdom.

I’m not trying to stump anybody… it’s the beauty of the language that I’m interested in.

Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.

I’m the worst person to tell anybody how to date.

A kid who was on welfare, because he refused to steal anybody’s property or take anybody’s money. You found life a lot tougher.

It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else