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

I’m just a down-to-earth guy.

I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that’s what I wanted to do with my life.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I’ve always had the power of foresight.

I never set my sights low. I’ve always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves.

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.

If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you…every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

Stillmatic’ is the rebirth of ‘Illmatic,’ my first debut album to come out in 1994. ‘Stillmatic’ is me coming full circle in my career and with everything, and just bringing pure hip-hop back.

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

I listen to everything – from Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette all the way down to rap like Scarface, UGK and Lauryn Hill.

This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being.

Chaos is impatient. It’s random. And above all it’s selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.