Gene Simmons

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

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

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

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.

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.