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My workout is always with a trainer because, quite honestly, I don't think most people are motivated enough to do what they need to on their own. You either need a spotter or you need a trainer. You need somebody there to push you to get that extra five.
Success
When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
Wisdom
Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'
Success
I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.
Wisdom
A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch.
Wisdom
I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.
Success
I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.
Wisdom
When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway.
Life
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
Wisdom
Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.
Life
The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.
Love
There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.
Wisdom
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is marketing. You've got a bunch of faceless people in a back room who trademark a name that sounds very official. Well, if you had thought of it first, you would have been the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Wisdom
Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.
Life
The whole idea of rock and roll lifestyle is a cartoon. It's a caricature. And at times, it's made up of people emulating others; a few who actually live that lifestyle and many who claim to live that lifestyle.
Life
I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.
Success
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Wisdom
I tend to fly a bit under the radar.
Wisdom
If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
Freedom
Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.
Wisdom
Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.
Wisdom
Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.
Wisdom
I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.
Wisdom
The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.
Wisdom
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