"Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed."

"I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves, but I love me."

"Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat."

"I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff."

"The root of all evil isn't money; rather, it's not having enough money."

"I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals."

"Men want success and sex. Women want everything."

"It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany."

"People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate."

"I worship scones and danishes. If I never had another meal, I wouldn't care as long as I could eat pastries and jelly doughnuts."

"Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private."

"If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it."

"Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life."

"Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself."

"The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish."

"The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band."

"Happy new year everbody! And remember: be kind to eachother."

"The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage."

"Women are from Mars, men have a penis"

"Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days."

"The best you can do is set your kids on the right track; staying on it without falling is up to the kids."

"When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do."

"James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention."

"When you look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit."

"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."