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
Well that's not a good idea, but that was close to reality, because my kids' real mom, Shannon Tweed ... was a former Playmate, ... It's tough for a very young child to explain to the other school kids 'yeah, mom was on the cover of Playboy and dad's this wacky rock star who has a talking codpiece and spits fire.'
He's just a good competitor, he has a good attitude about things. He's even a better competitor than I thought he was.
I thought he competed in every event, he ran a real good quarter mile (56 seconds). He placed in most everything but the 200 meters, he was pretty worn out by then.
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.
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.
A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications - and by forgetting to put the lid back down.
The venue has to know what it's buying.
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.
When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.
It's a personal statement that's a sort of personal allegiance to the United States of Indy.
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.
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 you go back and check all the reviews for all the icons of today -- Elvis, the Beatles and so on -- they were dismissed as flashes in the pans,