Quotes from Gene Simmons

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

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

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

I voted for President Bush. I voted for President Clinton and although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

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.

Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman.

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

Men want success and sex. Women want everything.

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

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

Women are from Mars, men have a penis

Women, you have all this power, I'm telling you. In business, you have something called an inferred fiduciary duty to yourself. Look at the other hugely successful women in industry, commerce, science and everywhere else and you'll see women who are feminine, beautiful but also do not rely on men for their self-empowerment.

So much of our popular mythology focuses on the negative aspects of power that we forget that gaining power is, perhaps, the only way to enable ourselves to make a difference in our lives and in the lives of others.

You actually don't need much. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have it all.