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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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 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 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."

"Everybody hates critics."

"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."