Paul Stanley Quotes

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

We're the McDonalds of rock. Were always there to satisfy, and a billion served.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

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.

There's a difference between standing up and telling people what you're planning to do and standing up and going and accomplishing something.

There are no fans more rabid or devoted than KISS fans. KISS fans are what all other fans are measured against. That's how it came to be known as the KISS Army.

Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!

I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!

Nashville may be famed for its country music, but this may well be the capital of rock and roll music in the United States of America.

The best part of waking up, is Folgers in your cup!

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.

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.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

The fact that you can't base a coffeehouse on any other rock band is the other rock bands' problem, not mine.

I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything is possible with determination and hard work.

The premise of Kiss has always been to not live within the confinements and boundaries other people set for themselves. We set our own limitations, and those are no limitations.

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.

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.

America is a business. If you can't afford to do something, no matter how much bellyaching everybody does I'm so sorry, if you can't afford it, you shouldn't do it.

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.

Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.

Core strengthening is key to everything. It's not just about the way I look, but about stabilizing my body so I can perform better on stage.

You can't enter the Olympics unless you do your routine to get in shape for it. The idea of going out on stage on a tour without having prepped for it would be suicide, literally.

I had heard some women make comments about my chest, so why not show it off? Nobody wants to see a fat guy in tights. That wouldn't be fair to the fans.

When rock roll is done with that fervor, it's close to gospel.

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.

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.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

I live in the house bad reviews built.

I love being a member of KISS.

It's a really special night for our fans. It's vindication.

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.'

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.

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.

We are still not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but there are 3,000 Kiss products, a Kiss musical toothbrush, everything from Kiss caskets to Kiss condoms. There are no Radiohead condoms.

If we're lucky we realize that life is really about family - your children, your family and your friends. Without that, the rest is hollow.

I am one of the biggest Laura Nyro fans. I still listen to that stuff incessantly. Laura Nyro does not belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Songwriter Hall of Fame? Absolutely.

I tend to fly a bit under the radar.

In terms of merchandise, you can't force anyone to buy something.

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color.

Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.

Gene sometimes... well, he has his dream list.

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