Gene Simmons planned on being a success the moment he launched himself out of his mother's womb.

When you walk through a bad neighborhood, you don't want a poodle by your side. You want a Rottweiler.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

I'm forbidden fruit. Once you go to certain households, mommy doesn't want you to see that dirty man who sticks his tongue out and spits out blood and all that stuff.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

There’s an old adage that says that money is the root of all evil. Bullshit. Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a Rottweiler on my hands.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

When you really think about it, I'm not delusional enough to think that what I do is important to life as we know it on this planet. No. But neither is what you do.

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

Dirk Gently has been a long passion (my career started with Douglas Adams and my stage adaptation of Dirk Gently) .

I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime, you've got to hold!

No sign of purpose can be detected in any part of the vast universe disclosed by our most powerful telescopes.

I drink coconut water before my workouts. It has just the right amount of calories and electrolytes to get me going. My body has actually started craving it.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University

As far as music being something that's not background, it doesn't mean that it's loud, it means that it's instantly something to dwell on and process and swallow and regurgitate.