A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
I look at my kid, and one part of me wants to keep her as my little baby. But, y'know, the bottom line is she's 18!
I've never read anything about heroin where, yeah, it's a good experience, and you can do it for 20 years and enjoy it, like having a cold beer. It doesn't work that way with heroin.
I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
I'm just a down-to-earth guy.
I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
I never set my sights low. I've always believed most people are ruined by the limitations they put on themselves. I was never afraid to take that step, to see what I was capable of doing. Does luck play a role in success, particularly in a creative field? Sure it does. But if you don't have the balls to give it a shot, you're destined to fail.
One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.
If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.
People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.
The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.
I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.
I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.
For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
