I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.

I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

People, y'know, they either love us or they hate us; there's no middle ground.

I like uncovering the cultural prejudices I didn't even know.

And evolution wasn't even properly invented until the late 1800s. Is that enough time to get a Labrador retriever from a dire wolf? I think not.

Though you recite much scripture, If you are unaware and do not act accordingYou are like a cowherd counting others' cattle, Not a sharer in the wanderer's life.

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.