“For me it’s about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it’s more about money.”

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!

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.

Why can’t a woman be more like a man? Men are so honest, so thoroughly square.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.

My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.

Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you’ll have much to live for.

I don’t know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we’ve been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.