Gene Simmons Quotes

You can't rely on anything. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself.

People are only what we believe them to be.

When you're busy doing your own stuff it's like running a race. You try not to look over your shoulder to see who else is in the race, you do the best you can.

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

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.

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

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

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.

Live well - respire frequently.

The Beatles weren't like any other band. Everybody in the band sang, which is why you knew everybody in the band.

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'm pissed at a nickel because it isn't a dime.

Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots?

Why is it that most of the folks I know think "personal growth" is caused entirely by those second and third helpings of biscuits and gravy?

I like to approach every day like it's the only day I will ever have.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

Recognize a rock 'n' roller for what he is, which is a damned lucky guy not to have to work for a living.

When you're dead you don't have a mental problem.

You don't need jails, you get put a thousand miles into the middle of Australia, you can go wherever you want, go ahead, but if you come into a city it's straight to jail.

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"

I've never been high or drunk in my life.

That's why I'm a big supporter of the death penalty. I want to be the hangman. I would put many more people to death like the kids who want to kill other people, I'd put 'em to death.

The biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

We don't know whether or not it's the Farewell Tour odr the Jews in Space Tour, which I prefer as a title.

Coming back to Israel is a homecoming.

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.

It's too easy to do a patriotic-themed show to crawl into people's hearts and minds.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

Prince, sad to say, has passed on!!!He was a Giant. My deep condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.

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