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
To be in a band on the road is to have anything and everything you want just by picking up the phone.
I voted for President Bush, I voted for President Clinton, and, although I do want my vote back, I voted for President Obama.
Get rid of the friends who want you to spend your whole day doing nothing with them. They're not your friends. They're your enemies.
The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.
If you want to welcome me with open arms, I'm afraid you're also going to have to welcome me with open legs,
Men want success and sex. Women want everything.
Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.
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.
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 look at Clark Kent when he's working at the Daily Planet, ... he's a reporter. He doesn't fly through the air in his glasses and his suit.
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.
The venue has to know what it's buying.
It's a personal statement that's a sort of personal allegiance to the United States of Indy.
If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.