"Marriage is an institution, and you must be fully committed to it."

"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."

"Everybody hates critics."

"I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing his attention on the woman, and not what's on the stove."

"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 refuse to stand up in front of a rabbi and my friends and the woman I love - who I will tell you I can love with all my heart - and promise she will be the only one I will ever have until the day I die. That's a lie."

"I fail all of the time. It means nothing."

"I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them."

"Nobody does just one thing. But the real difference between being an entrepreneur and everyone else in the world is the ability to monetize. I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold."

"To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone."

"I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli."

"If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy."

"England is a profoundly bizarre place that has produced thousands of bands the world has worshipped."

"There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother's heart."

"Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs."

"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."

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

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

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

"Kiss is not a charity. Never, ever mix commerce and charity."

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

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

"Don't believe bands who say it's all about the fans and they want to give their music away for free. The result is they will continue to live in their mother's basement."

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

"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."

"I think I know it all, relatively speaking."

"First, when I was 12, I saw a Spanish girl jumping rope. I never saw her face, but it was still the most beautiful sight I'd ever seen."

"My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose."

"My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons."

"I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well."

"When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler."

"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 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."

"When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain."

"I think it's pathetic that women and men treat each other worse than we treat our pets. It's love or hate."

"I don't wanna go on vacation. There's nothing about it that appeals to me. People look forward to doing that; I look forward to getting up every day and doing something."

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

"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."