"All I know is we’re having the time of our lives getting up on stage and living up to our motto - ‘You wanted the best. You got the best.’ This is the hottest band in the world."

"There was a five-year-old boy who I was having an argument with, and he was criticizing me for putting on the makeup wrong. And I’m arguing with him: ‘Look, you’re not qualified to say that, you just learned how to wipe your butt — I know how to, I’m Gene Simmons.’ He goes, ‘Yeah but the corner doesn’t have the downward swoop, you went up.’ Sure enough, the little putz was right."

"KISS concerts are no longer concerts. It’s a tribal gathering."