Quotes from Gene Simmons

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

If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

With just a little effort, life can be more or less exceptionally tolerable.

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

Everybody hates critics.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

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

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

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.

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.

Before you go out there and try to conquer the universe... get your act together.

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.

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

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.

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

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

If you look at YOURSELF as the brand, then you will understand an intrinsic truth: People judge.

Better to discuss everything out in the open while you're in love, then if or when the relationship sadly ends. It's called Full Disclosure Before The Fact.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

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

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.

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

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.