Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons
Chaim Witz, known professionally as Gene Simmons, is an Israeli-American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur, actor and television personality. Also known by his stage persona The Demon, he is the bass guitarist and co-lead singer of Kiss, the rock band he co-founded with rhythm guitarist Paul Stanley in the early 1970s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth25 August 1949
CityTirat Carmel, Israel
CountryUnited States of America
How can you not be attracted to this sport? It's a hair-trigger sport where one sneeze at 230 mph gets you in trouble.
We're starting a cable network and a boxing venture, getting involved in Indy car racing, Warner Brothers is starting work on the 'KISS Babies' cartoon show, and the KISS Broadway musical is commencing production.
If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.
Live and think like a poor man and you'll always be OK.
Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.
We recognized right off the bat that he was a good athlete. From that point on we were looking at how he could best fit into the system.
The venue has to know what it's buying.
The notion is that if you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs.
It's a personal statement that's a sort of personal allegiance to the United States of Indy.
So you had people coming in with scissors, you know, 'my mom's a hair stylist,' or a toothbrush, 'my dad's a dentist,' and my son came in with a poster of me spewing blood and spitting fire,
Personally I support 14,000 kids in Zambia - I feed and clothe them - but I don't hold press conferences about it. I don't do it so you'll think what a nice person I am; it's private.
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.
In theater, you're playing characters. You believe you're somebody else, and you're acting.
I want to do everything. I want to be the president, I want to learn Tae Kwan Do, I want to climb mountains. I'm always bugged by the notion that I can't do everything.