If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

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.

Memory is not only unruly, leaving us in the lurch when most needed, but stupid as well, putting its nose into places where it is not wanted.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Most of us will have more than one job in our working lives, which means we will have more than one opportunity to seek meaningful work at different stages of our own deepening humanity.

I've wasted a lot of time pretending to be interested in people who weren't terribly interesting.

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?

Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

I wish I could buy you for what you are really worth and sell you for what you think you're worth. I sure would make money on the deal.