Quotes By Gene Simmons

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

People who are the salt of the earth get up and go to a job that they hate.

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.

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.

Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly water. I eat about 15 pops every two days.

I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.

Everybody hates critics.

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.

I think I know it all, relatively speaking.

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

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.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

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

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

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

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.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

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.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

I'm in a weird band. We've done very well. The American Dream is alive and well.

I also learned that I love making money. Anyone who is not afraid of work will be happy with the money they make.

You can't go through life and leave things the way they are. We can all make a difference, and if I die today, I know I made a difference.