People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask and the mascara.

It's the thing to do, to tell all the teeny-boppers, "I dig The Beatles" and you sing a song like "Yesterday" or "Michelle". Hey, God knows, it's such a cop-out, man, both of those songs. If you go into the Library of Congress, you'll find stuff a lot better than that. There are millions of songs like "Michelle" or "Yesterday" written in Tin Pan Alley.

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.